A Sociological Mirage
The Social Construction of Reality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10565772 |
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| Authors | Philippe De Lara (École nationale des ponts et chaussées, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 259-274 |
| Publication date | 2000-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Czech Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0288 • E-ISSN: 2336-128X |
| Publisher | Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences (PUBLISHER • CZ) |
| DOI | 10.13060/00380288.2000.36.3.01 |
| OpenAlex | W3033859056 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
This article discusses the rule of methodological scepticism in contemporary French social thought. The author examines in this particular context the school of 'social constructivism', and how this school reflects some very old questions: the tension between the individual and collective dimension of the social being, the objective (i.e. real) existence of socially constructed institutions, what kind of relation exists between the consciousness of social agents and how they 'construct' the external world. This article was originally published in French by the review Le Dbat (No. 97
Social reality · Social science · Sociological theory · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Emile Durkheim and Sociology · Philosophy, Sociology, Political Theory
| Highly cited | No |
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