ISBN:
9781107024373
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (298 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version The Reality of Social Construction
DDC:
302
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Argues that versions of realist and social constructionist ways of thinking about the social world are compatible with each other
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; The Reality of Social Construction; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Part One Social ontology; 1 Introduction; Varieties of social constructionism; Realism versus social constructionism?; The social ontology of normatively based phenomena; Culture and institutions; Linguistic constructionism; Discursive constructionism; Knowledge and reality; Reconciling realism and social constructionism; 2 Norm circles; Realist ontology; Social ontology; Norm circles; Norm circle boundaries; Locating normative causal power
Description / Table of Contents:
Norm circle intersectionality and complexitiesTypes of norm circle; Is normativity socially constructed?; Conclusion; Part Two Culture; 3 Culture and rules; The problem of culture; Culture as objective knowledge?; Culture as a property of groups of people - and things; Can rules be things with causal power?; Can rules be shared?; Conclusion; 4 Institutional reality; The construction of institutional facts; Constitutive rules and status function declarations; The background; Does language create institutional facts?; Is Searle an individualist?; Indexing norms and institutional reality
Description / Table of Contents:
ConclusionPart Three Language; 5 Signification; Saussure's theory of signification; The ontology of the sign; Linguistic arbitrariness; Conclusion; 6 Langue and parole; Speech communities; Communities of practice; Linguistic circles; Communities of practice as associations; Linguistic circles and speech communities; From langue to parole; Meaning in practice; Conclusion; 7 Categories, essences, and sexes; Linguistic hegemony; Natural kinds; Cluster kinds; Kinds and categories; The social construction of the human sexes; Are the sexes natural kinds?; Sex and gender; Conclusion
Description / Table of Contents:
Part Four Discourse8 Discourse; What is discourse?; Discursive formations; Discursive norm circles; Conclusion; 9 Cultures and classes; Cultures and boundaries; Cultures as national; Cultures: constructed or real?; Classes; Conclusion; 10 Subjects; What is the subject?; The subject in Althusser and Foucault; Butler's attack on the subject; Butler's performative account of the subject; Moderate constructionism and subjects; Conclusion; Part Five Knowledge; 11 Knowledge; Knowledge as a form of belief; Justifying knowledge; Types of knowledge; Epistemological circles
Description / Table of Contents:
Science and epistemic circlesSocial influences on epistemic standards; Epistemic relativism and its implications; Conclusion; 12 Reality; Berger and Luckmann; Rhetoric and reality; The genealogy of neo-Kantian constructionism; The incoherence of neo-Kantian constructionism; Conclusion; 13 Conclusion; The social ontology of normative structures; Realist social constructionism; The rebuttal of radical constructionisms; Towards a constructionist realist social theory; Bibliography; Index
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; The Reality of Social Construction; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Part One Social ontology; 1 Introduction; Varieties of social constructionism; Realism versus social constructionism?; The social ontology of normatively based phenomena; Culture and institutions; Linguistic constructionism; Discursive constructionism; Knowledge and reality; Reconciling realism and social constructionism; 2 Norm circles; Realist ontology; Social ontology; Norm circles; Norm circle boundaries; Locating normative causal power
Description / Table of Contents:
Norm circle intersectionality and complexitiesTypes of norm circle; Is normativity socially constructed?; Conclusion; Part Two Culture; 3 Culture and rules; The problem of culture; Culture as objective knowledge?; Culture as a property of groups of people - and things; Can rules be things with causal power?; Can rules be shared?; Conclusion; 4 Institutional reality; The construction of institutional facts; Constitutive rules and status function declarations; The background; Does language create institutional facts?; Is Searle an individualist?; Indexing norms and institutional reality
Description / Table of Contents:
ConclusionPart Three Language; 5 Signification; Saussure's theory of signification; The ontology of the sign; Linguistic arbitrariness; Conclusion; 6 Langue and parole; Speech communities; Communities of practice; Linguistic circles; Communities of practice as associations; Linguistic circles and speech communities; From langue to parole; Meaning in practice; Conclusion; 7 Categories, essences, and sexes; Linguistic hegemony; Natural kinds; Cluster kinds; Kinds and categories; The social construction of the human sexes; Are the sexes natural kinds?; Sex and gender; Conclusion
Description / Table of Contents:
Part Four Discourse8 Discourse; What is discourse?; Discursive formations; Discursive norm circles; Conclusion; 9 Cultures and classes; Cultures and boundaries; Cultures as national; Cultures: constructed or real?; Classes; Conclusion; 10 Subjects; What is the subject?; The subject in Althusser and Foucault; Butler's attack on the subject; Butler's performative account of the subject; Moderate constructionism and subjects; Conclusion; Part Five Knowledge; 11 Knowledge; Knowledge as a form of belief; Justifying knowledge; Types of knowledge; Epistemological circles
Description / Table of Contents:
Science and epistemic circlesSocial influences on epistemic standards; Epistemic relativism and its implications; Conclusion; 12 Reality; Berger and Luckmann; Rhetoric and reality; The genealogy of neo-Kantian constructionism; The incoherence of neo-Kantian constructionism; Conclusion; 13 Conclusion; The social ontology of normative structures; Realist social constructionism; The rebuttal of radical constructionisms; Towards a constructionist realist social theory; Bibliography; Index;
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