The Linguistic Construction of Reality
A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced “a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally” (George Simpson, American Sociological Review).
In The Construction of Social Reality, eminent philosopher John Searle examines the structure of social reality (or those portions of the world that are facts only by human agreement, such as money, marriage, property, and government), and ...
A study of the importance of a work that established a paradigm in the international sociology of knowledge, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology with interests in social theory, the history of the social sciences and the ...
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This book reformulates the sociological subdiscipline known as the sociology of knowledge. Knowledge is presented as more than ideology, including as well false consciousness, propaganda, science and art.
The papers in this collection discuss the central questions about the connections between language, reality and human understanding.
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To accomplish this, the literature on trial techniques consistently suggests that lawyers address the claims made by the opposing side, including the potentially damaging information that has been raised (e.g., Caldwell et al.
Consider Nancy Fraser's characterization: Critical theories arise out of social activism. The questions they ask are those that are important for bringing about social justice in a particular time and place. They do not begin by asking ...