Making the social world
the structure of human civilization
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Author
Publication
2009 - Oxford University Press, Oxford, England
Language
English
Word Count
52,000 words, Guess
Page Count
208 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL60456212M
- ISBN-139780195396171
- Internet Archivemakingsocialworl0000sear
Classifications
- DDC300.1
- LCCH61 .S4475 2009
- LCCH61 .S4475 2010
Description
"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."--Jacket.
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