The Nature of Social Reality: Issues in Social Ontology Lawson Tony
The Nature of Social Reality: Issues in Social Ontology Lawson Tony The social sciences often fail to examine in any systematic way the nature of their subject matter. Readers will gain an…
Specifikacia The Nature of Social Reality: Issues in Social Ontology Lawson Tony
The Nature of Social Reality: Issues in Social Ontology Lawson Tony
The social sciences often fail to examine in any systematic way the nature of their subject matter. Readers will gain an understanding of how social phenomena, from tables and chairs, to money and firms, and nurses and Presidents are constituted. Demonstrating that this is a central explanation of the widely acknowledged failings of the social sciences, not least of modern economics, this book sets about rectifying matters.Providing an account of the nature of social material in general, as well as of the specific natures of central components of the modern world, such as money and the corporation, Lawson also considers the implications of this theory regarding possibilities for social change.
Fundamental to Lawson's conception is a theory of community-based social positioning, whereby people and things within a community become constituted as components of emergent