Social Reality

ISBN-13: 9780415147972 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 266 str.

Finn Collin

Opis

Social reality is a key problem in the philosophy of social science. This text outlines the major issues - historical and contemporary - raised by the social reality and social facts. To the philosopher, it shows how the well-worn topic of realism versus anti-realism assumes new and interestingly varied forms when social reality is substituted for physical reality. For the social scientist, the book offers conceptual clarification of key issues in recent social science which are really philosophical issues.

Recenzje

'One of the remarkable things about the book is its philosophical sophistication in bringing to bear recent work on matters of social thought ... It is exceptionally written - lucid and plain in an arena that is fraught with stridency.' - Ian Jarvie, York University

Spis treści

Introduction; Part 1 The Broad Arguments; Chapter 1 Ethnomethodology; Chapter 2 The Cultural Relativity Argument; Chapter 3 Social Constructivism and the Sociology of Knowledge: Berger and Luckmann; Chapter 4 The Linguistic Relativity Argument; Summary of Part One; Part 2 The Narrow Arguments; Chapter 5 The Arguments from the ‘Meaningfulness’ of Action; Chapter 6 The Arguments from the ‘Meaningfulness’ of Action; Chapter 7 The Argument from the Symbolic Nature of Social Facts; Chapter 8 The Argument from Convention; Summary of Part TwoPart 3 Methodological Implications of Constructivism;

O autorze

Finn Collin is Senior Lecturer at the University of Copenhagen. He holds doctorates in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Copenhagen. Dr Collin is the author of Theory and Understanding: A Critique of Interpretive Social Science (1985).