A01=Finn Collin
argument
arguments
Author_Finn Collin
Bridge Laws
Category=JHBA
Category=QDTS
Common Language
Concomitant Symbolism
consensus
construction
Construction Thesis
constructivist analysis of facts
Constructivist Thesis
Conventional Facts
Cultural Relativity Argument
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Ethnomethodological Argument
Face To Face
fact
Habermas's Consensus Theory
Habermas’s Consensus Theory
Hermeneutic Argument
Holy Man
Individual Human Actions
Infinite Hierarchy
interpretive methodology
Invisible Quotation Marks
Lewis's Analysis
Lewis’s Analysis
Linguistic Relativity Argument
Locke's Political Philosophy
Locke’s Political Philosophy
meaning in human action
narrow
Narrow Arguments
phenomenological
Phenomenological Argument
philosophy of social science
Social Construction View
Social Constructivist Position
Social Contract Doctrine
social ontology
sociology of knowledge
symbolic interactionism
theory
thesis
THOMAS KUHN
truth
Vice Versa
Product details
- ISBN 9780415147972
- Weight: 490g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 17 Apr 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Social reality is currently a hotly debated topic not only in social science, but also in philosophy and the other humanities. Finn Collin, in this concise guide, asks if social reality is created by the way social agents conceive of it? Is there a difference between the kind of existence attributed to social and to physical facts - do physical facts enjoy a more independent existence? To what extent is social reality a matter of social convention.
Finn Collin considers a number of traditional doctrines which support the constructivist position that social reality is generated by our 'interpretation' of it. He also examines the way social facts are contingent upon the meaning invested in them by social agents; the nature of social convention; the status of social facts as symbolic; the ways in which socially shared language is claimed to generate the reality described, as well as the limitations of some of the over-ambitious popular arguments for social constructivism.
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).
