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The Nature of Social Reality - Issues in Social Ontology (Paperback)
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The Nature of Social Reality - Issues in Social Ontology (Paperback)
Series: Economics as Social Theory
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The social sciences often fail to examine in any systematic way the
nature of their subject matter. 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. Readers will gain an
understanding of how social phenomena, from tables and chairs, to
money and firms, and nurses and Presidents are constituted.
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 totalities, with
actions governed by the rights and obligations of relevant members
of the community. This theory isolates a set of basic principles
that will offer the reader an understanding of the natures of all
social phenomena. The Nature of Social Reality is for all those,
academics and non-academics alike, who wish to gain a grasp on the
nature of social phenomena that goes beyond the superficial.
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