Comment on Searle
@article{Gross2006CommentOS, title={Comment on Searle}, author={Neal Gross}, journal={Anthropological Theory}, year={2006}, volume={6}, pages={45 - 56} }
While appreciative of Searle's contributions, this commentary questions whether the core insights of The Construction of Social Reality advance all that much beyond the position staked out more than a century ago by Emile Durkheim. Durkheim, to be sure, was no analytic philosopher, but both Durkheim and Searle recognize the existence of something like collective representations, view a key feature of such representations as being that of imposing new statuses, powers, and meanings on objects…
6 Citations
Searle versus Durkheim
- Law
- 2007
In The Construction of Social Reality (Searle 1995) and subsequent writings that develop its argument (notably Searle 2003 and his contributions to D’Andrade 2006), Searle proposes a general account…
A New Foundation for the Social Sciences? Searle’s Misreading of Durkheim
- Sociology
- 2015
The aim of John Searle’s philosophy of society is to provide a foundation for the social sciences. Arguing that the study of social reality needs to be based on a philosophy of language, Searle…
Religion as Social Reality
- Philosophy
- 2016
In this article I argue that the shift from a private to a public–social understanding of religion raises new ontological and epistemological questions for the scientific study of religion\s. These…
Formation Stories and Causality in Sociology
- Sociology
- 2014
Sociologists have long been interested in understanding the emergence of new social kinds. We argue that sociologists’ formation stories have been mischaracterized as noncausal, descriptive, or…
Sociology of Discourse: From institutions to social change
- Sociology
- 2015
Sociology of Discourse takes the perspective that collective actors like social movements are capable of creating social change from below by creating new institutions through alternative discourses.…
Is Entrepreneurial Opportunity Objective? Implications from the Ontology and Epistemology of Social Institutions
- Business
- 2014
This paper takes a fresh look at a core question in entrepreneurship: are opportunities objective, formed by exogenous shocks to pre-existing markets or industries that entrepreneurs then discover,…
References
SHOWING 1-10 OF 38 REFERENCES
Rules of Sociological Method
- Sociology
- 1895
First published in 1895: Emile Durkheim's masterful work on the nature and scope of sociology--now with a new introduction and improved translation by leading scholar Steven Lukes.The Rules of the…
Rethinking Durkheim and his Tradition
- Sociology
- 2004
Preface and acknowledgements 1. Durkheim and the social character of the categories 2. Historical background: Aristotle and Kant 3. The categories in early nineteenth-century French philosophy 4. The…
Modern Social Imaginaries
- Art
- 2003
One of the most influential philosophers in the English-speaking world, Charles Taylor is internationally renowned for his contributions to political and moral theory, particularly to debates about…
Durkheim and Representations
- Sociology
- 1999
1. Hayek and After 2. Conflicts in Social Science 3. Political Thought of Andre Gorz 4. Corruption, Capitalism and Democracy 5. Freedom and Culture in Western Society 6. Freedom in Economics 7.…
Elementary forms of religious life
- Sociology
- 1912
'If religion generated everything that is essential in society, this is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.' In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Emile Durkheim set…
The Structure of Social Action
- EconomicsEthics
- 1940
S OCIAL science has suffered from certain major deficiencies. Chief among them has been the lack of a general systematic theory by which to comprehend the generality of social facts and through which…
Outline of a theory of practice
- Sociology
- 1972
Pierre Bourdieu develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of the methods and postures of social science and a general account of how human action should be understood, able to transcend the dichotomies which have shaped theoretical thinking about the social world.
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
- Art
- 1916
"Karen Fields has given us a splendid new translation of the greatest work of sociology ever written, one we will not be embarrassed to assign to our students. In addition she has written a brilliant…
Narrating and Naturalizing Civil Society and Citizenship Theory: The Place of Political Culture and the Public Sphere
- Sociology
- 1995
L'A. s'interroge sur la nature du concept de culture politique. Il montre que celui-ci est enracine dans un contexte historique qui implique une culture politique propre. Il s'efforce donc de…
HERE AND EVERYWHERE: Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
- Sociology
- 1995
The sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) is one of the profession’s most marginal specialties, yet its objects of inquiry, its modes of inquiry, and certain of its findings have very substantial…