ISBN:
9780197657348
Language:
English
Pages:
XIII, 160 Seiten
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Erscheint auch als
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DDC:
306
Keywords:
Einrichtung
;
Sozialphilosophie
;
Social norms
;
Associations, institutions, etc
;
Social interaction
;
Reality
;
Einrichtung
;
Sozialphilosophie
Abstract:
"The institutional aspects of reality are clearly part of the much larger and much more diffuse social aspect of the world. In other words, institutional facts are a subset of social facts. It might be useful, however, to start with the larger category, with the idea of a social fact. A simple, noncircular definition of a social fact would be one that utilizes the idea of ontological dependence. We could say that a fact is of a social kind iff it is the kind of fact that ontologically depends on the existence of a multitude of human beings interacting with each other in certain ways. It doesn't mean that a social fact has to be a fact about groups of human beings, as such, or about a particular type of interaction among them. The idea is that a fact is social if and only if it depends, ontologically, on the existence of human interactions"
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
