The Construction Of Social Reality by John Rogers Searle
An Essay in Social Ontology
The book develops an account of social reality as constructed through collective intentionality and constitutive rules: certain physical or behavioral phenomena become institutional facts when people assign them status functions (the move often summarized as “X counts as Y in C”), creating rights, obligations, and deontic powers that underpin institutions like money, property, and marriage. It distinguishes institutional from brute facts, explains how language, declarations, and the background of shared capacities enable social objectivity, and argues that normative features of social life—oughts, rights, and duties—emerge from these collective practices rather than existing independently.
- Published
- 1995
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 241
- Original Language
- English
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