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- Title
Critical Notice/Études critique John Searle’s Making the Social World.
- Authors
Hershfield, Jeffrey
- Abstract
A literary criticism is offered on the book "Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization," by John R. Searle. Topics discussed include the notion of social ontology, which denotes the foundational logic of social phenomena, the idea of Status Function Declarations, which refers to speech acts that create institutional realities, and the concept of Background/Network power, which describes unconscious social pressure.
- Subjects
MAKING the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization (Book); SEARLE, John R., 1932-; SOCIAL theory; ONTOLOGY -- Social aspects; SOCIAL facts; SPEECH acts (Linguistics); ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.
- Publication
Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 2011, Vol 50, Issue 4, p759
- ISSN
0012-2173
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1017/S0012217312000042