Construction of Social Reality

✍ Scribed by John R. Searle

Publisher: Free Press
Year: 1995
Tongue: English
Leaves: 247
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Discusses the questions of how social facts come into being, how stable they are, and how cultural knowledge is constructed.

✦ Subjects

Epistemology;Philosophy;Politics & Social Sciences;Logic & Language;Philosophy;Politics & Social Sciences;Social Sciences;Children’s Studies;Communication & Media Studies;Criminology;Customs & Traditions;Demography;Disaster Relief;Emigration & Immigration;Folklore & Mythology;Gender Studies;Gerontology;Holidays;Human Geography;Human Sexuality;Library & Information Science;Linguistics;Methodology;Museum Studies & Museology;Philanthropy & Charity;Popular Culture;Pornography;Poverty;Privacy & Sur

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