Title
Making the social world : the structure of human civilization / John R. Searle.
ISBN
9780195396171 (alk. paper)
0195396170 (alk. paper)
9780199576913
0199576912
Imprint
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Language
English
Description
xiv, 208 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
H61 .S4475 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
300.1
Summary
"John Searle offers a profound understanding of how we create a social reality - a reality of money, property, governments, marriages, stock markets, and cocktail parties. The paradox he addresses in Making the Social World is that these facts exist only because we think they exist, and yet they have an objective existence." "Continuing a line of investigation begun in his earlier book The Construction of Social Reality, Searle identifies the precise role of language in the creation of all "institutional facts." His aim is to show how mind, language, and civilization are natural products of the basic facts of the physical world described by physics, chemistry, and biology. Searle explains how a single linguistic operation, repeated over and over, is used to create and maintain the elaborate structures of human social institutions."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The purpose of this book
Intentionality
Collective intentionality and the assignment of function
Language as biological and social
The general theory of institutions and institutional facts : language and social reality
Free will, rationality, and institutional facts
Power : deontic, background, political, and other
Human rights
Concluding remarks : the ontological foundations of the social sciences.
