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| | Social constructionism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | An illustrative example of social constructionist thought at work is, following the work of Sigmund Freud and Émile Durkheim, religion. | | | According to this line of thought, the basis for religion is rooted in our psyche, in a need to see some purpose in life. | | | A given religion, then, does not show us some hidden aspect of objective reality, but has rather been constructed according to social and historical processes according to human needs. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_constructionism
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| | That is, it is not the religious doctrines themselves but the different social organization of the two religions. | | | Sanctions may be associated with social facts, for example as in religion, where resistance may result in disapproval from others or from spiritual leaders. | | | But if this is the factor related to suicide, then it is the social organization that is the cause of the difference, not religion in itself. |
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| | Dictating Reality? |
| | Reality is the non-objectifiable occurrence of the primordial, emergent, opening-up illumination, which can happen per se, without necessarily requiring the agency of the least thing. | | | As the defense lawyer brings in the three men with whom you've had sexual relations within the past ten years, you realize that the jury is beginning to picture you as some kind of scarlet woman of easy virtue who consorts with thugs. | | | He knows: if he manages to comply with the phenomenon that is worthy of his awe so perfectly that he catches sight of its entire truth, he has succeeded also in releasing himself from the chaos of all delusions. |
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http://www.hermes-press.com/dictating_reality.htm
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| | Searching for Faith’s Social Reality |
| | The church, said Bonhoeffer, is the world as it is meant to be in Jesus Christ -- the space where the world is structured according to its true center. | | | This sociology would try to understand what it might mean to speak of a social space of God-ruling as this world decentered and recentered by the word and work of Jesus Christ. | | | And Jesus’ life, death and resurrection, considered as a parable, force a re-vision of the world which reveals the meaning of the rule of God. |
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http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=1840
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| | Redefining Reality:
A Resolution to the Paradox of Emancipation and the Agency-Structure Dichotomy |
| | In other words, reality is what it is: an asteroid is an asteroid is an asteroid, etc
“Truth” is an intrinsic, inseparable feature of phenomena as they exist independent of human perception. | | | This is not to say that the redefined system of beliefs at which one arrives after experiencing a moment of truth is, therefore, Truth. | | | When I say that social actors can redefine reality, I do not mean that they can wish the world away whenever they choose. |
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http://theoryandscience.icaap.org/content/vol003.002/mcgettigan.html
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| | SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE |
| | Such a situation cannot be understood unless it is ongoingly related to its socio-structural context, which follows logically from the necessary relations between the social D of L and the social distribution of knowledge. | | | The religious perspective is ''he who would know must first believe.'' This perspective differs from the common sense perspective in that it moves beyond the realities of everyday life to wider ones which correct and complete them, and its defining concern is not action upon those wider realities, but of acceptance and faith in them. | | | Rather than a community (which attempts to be an inclusive whole, celebrating the interdependence of public and private life), the authors believe that lifestyle as an enclave essentially celebrates the narcissistic and is segmental - explicitly involving a contrast with others who do not share their lifestyle. |
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http://ssr1.uchicago.edu/PRELIMS/Culture/cumisc1.html
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| | Inga Tomic-Koludrovic, Mirko Petric and Ivica Mitrovic: Mixed Reality or One Reality |
| | Not only in Berger-Luckmann's but also in Schutz's work, the approach to "reality" is founded on the premises of phenomenology as a philosophical method of inquiry. | | | The matter at issue is obviously the definition of "reality" (in this case, the definition of "social reality"). | | | As such, these approaches obviously cannot adequately describe the social aspects of agent interactions, in which the system is only fragmentarily present. |
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| | HFCL TUTORIAL Communication Environment |
| | The meanings that people will make of this message arise in good part from the realities of their everyday lives. | | | But, of course, these institutions are real only in the minds of the people who have constructed them, and they will continue to be real only as long as people learn and properly make use of their roles. | | | This is what we mean when we speak of the social construction of reality -- that when we communicate, we participate in the building of the reality that we inhabit. |
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http://www.rdillman.com/HFCL/TUTOR/ComEnv/ComEnv2.html
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| | Amazon.co.uk: The Construction of Social Reality: Books |
| | He describes a world of reality where complex structure is invisible, and in which certain things only exist because we believe them to exist. | | | Confronting head-on the postmodern claim that reality and truth are social constructs, Searle demolishes (deconstructs?) this claim and illustrates just how foolish and unexamined it is. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the ideas that have taken the humanities and higher education to a new nadir--which should be everyone. | | | Customers who bought books by John R. Searle also bought books by these authors: |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140235906
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| | Deep Listening & Social Reality |
| | Certainly the rulers of communist China think he is. I think the Dalai Lama knows the wisdom of folly (like any good Buddhist) and would happily claim to be a "fool" in the sense we are using the word, especially when it comes to dealing with Stalinist concepts of social realism. | | | Elements of activist ideology were also found in the Verissmo movement in Italy. | | | A historical example of feulletonism might be the many 19th century British tourists who went to Tuscany to take aquarelle courses, people who toy with the arts as a mild form of escapism. |
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http://www.deeplistening.org/pipermail/deep-l/1999-March/002460.html
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| | Social Reality:0415147972:Collin, Finn:eCampus.com |
| | Is there a difference between the kind of existence attributed to social and to physical facts? | | | The nature of 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 it. |
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http://www.ecampus.com/bk_detail.asp?isbn=0415147972&referrer=yah04
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| | Quinney's Social Reality of Crime |
| | On p.217, Quinney says that crime is created. | | | This may help give a new meaning to the struggles some of you are having with Gergen and the social construction of identity. | | | By that, he is referring to the social definition of crime, to the fact that the system of government we have created for ourselves was and is constructed by those who have titled authority and power. |
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http://oldweb.uwp.edu/academic/criminal.justice/crimlect16.htm
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| | Review of John Searle's book, The Construction of Social Reality |
| | The project of this book is two-fold, (1) to justify his Realism, his claim that there are objective brute and social facts, and (2) to explain how social facts, and the social reality they comprise, come into existence. | | | Searle defends his Realism in two ways, first by examining the main arguments of those who attack Realism and showing what he believes to be various logical flaws which rob those arguments of any force. | | | The second half of Searle's book consists of his defense of his Realism, the existence of a real world consisting of facts which exist independently of human agreement in representations, intentions, practices, rules, and language. |
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http://users.california.com/~rathbone/searles.htm
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| | SocioSite: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY |
| | As we shall see again later, the primary social control is given in the existence of an institution as such. | | | Rather, human sexuality is socially controlled by its institutionalization in the course of the particular history in question. | | | That is, man (not of course, in isolation but in his collectivities) and his social world interact with each other. |
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http://www.sociosite.net/topics/texts/berger_luckman.php
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| | Social reality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Some scholars such as John Searle believe that the social reality can be established separately from that of any individual or the surrounding ecology (at odds with the views of perceptual psychology including those of J. | | | The best-known principle of social reality is "the big lie", which states that an outrageous untruth is easier to convince people of than a less outrageous truth. | | | Theories of the measurement of trust in the sociological community are usually called theories of social capital, to emphasize the connection to economics, and the ability to measure outputs in the same manner. |
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| | John Searle's The Construction of Social Reality |
| | If there are no brute facts to provide a foundation for social facts, then there is no logical basis for the structure of social reality. | | | According to his view, physical reality is the same for all of us, and exists independently of our representations. | | | He defends Realism (the theory that there is a real world existing independently of our ideas and representations) as necessary for our understanding of social reality, and he also defends the Correspondence Theory of Truth (the theory that statements are true if they correspond to facts in the real world). |
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http://www.angelfire.com/md2/timewarp/searle.html
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| | Amazon.ca: The Construction of Social Reality: Books |
| | His arguments are thoroughly explained, developed, and explored, so that even a novice could follow his impeccable logic. | | | You can view sample pages from this book. | | | In The Construction of Social Reality, John Searle argues that there are two kinds of facts--some that are independent of human observers, and some that require human agreement. |
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| | John Searle and the Construction Of Social Reality |
| | While many of Searle's interlocutors share the sense that the text marks an important breakthrough, he has time and again accused critics of misunderstanding his claims. | | | His Construction of Social Reality (1995) has provoked much discussion in the form of articles (four journals have devoted special issues to it), but until now there has not been a book-length treatment of this major text. | | | In locating The Construction of Social Reality under the umbrella of one of sociology's founding fathers, this book not only makes Searle's text more accessible to the readers in the social sciences, but presents Max Weber as a thinker worthy of philosophical reconsideration. |
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http://www.thoemmes.com/american/searle.htm
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| | Social Security - Retirement Planning - AARP |
| | Private Accounts or Carve Outs: What Do They Mean? | | | The problems in financing Social Security may not be big as some people make them out to be. | | | Meet real people who rely on Social Security. |
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| | Keith Miller on Social Security on National Review Online |
| | The time to reform Social Security is now. | | | Consider the grim figures presented in the most recent report from the trustees of the Social Security Administration. | | | They note that, in addition to paying 100 percent of their regularly scheduled Social Security taxes, this year's high-school graduates can expect to be paying sharply higher income taxes at about the same time most will be trying to support their own families. |
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| | The Social Security Network |
| | The Basics: Social Security Reform, a popular source for reliable facts about the program and its future, presents the latest numbers on how the program works, who it affects, and the reform debate. | | | A new front in battle over Social Security | | | New for the 2005 edition: a chapter on privatization proposals and what those changes would mean to the program and tomorrow's retirees. |
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http://www.socsec.org
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| | Abstract "Social Filtering and Social Reality" |
| | Social filtering as a community-based approach seems to be a promising complement to our individual-based filtering approach. | | | In this paper, we argue that most current social information filtering approaches do not sufficiently account for situatedness and the social embedding of human cognition. | | | So far, our work has been focusing on individuals participating in the global conferencing system Usenet news. |
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http://linus.socs.uts.edu.au/~lueg/abstracts/delos97.html
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| | American Archives: Social reality |
| | Social reality: documents that uncover both the workings of society (slavery, the life of women, riots, and the like) and opinions expressed about such social realities. | | | Class: depictions of class relations in the colonies or Britain. |
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http://dig.lib.niu.edu/amarch/reality.html
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| | Program 20: Constructing Social Reality |
| | This program looks at the process and elements of interpreting reality. | | | Any traumatic experience or rough period in life can make a person more vulnerable to a cult, but the greatest vulnerability is a lack of understanding about how destructive cults operate. | | | Constructing Social Reality is the twentieth program in the DISCOVERING PSYCHOLOGY series. |
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http://www.learner.org/discoveringpsychology/20/e20expand.html
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| | No match for social reality |
| | Sorry, the term social reality is not in the dictionary. | | | Nearby terms: social constructivism « social contract theory « social Darwinism « Socrates » Socraticism » software » software law | | | Last modified: Sat Feb 17 16:22:35 GMT 2001 |
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