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Conventionalism is a category for books that explore how human-made rules, norms, and standards shape what we take to be real, true, fair, or possible. It spans philosophy, social science, history, law, and design, as well as fiction that highlights or subverts its own genre rules. Works in this category investigate the origins and power of conventions—language and classification systems, measurements and technical standards, legal codes, market practices, scientific methods, etiquette and identity norms—showing how they are created, enforced, contested, and revised. They ask to what extent facts and values rest on collective agreement, and what happens when those agreements shift. From critical essays and ethnographies to speculative narratives that imagine alternate rule-sets, the unifying focus is on the social scaffolding of reality and the possibilities opened by rethinking it.

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