Truth and Social Reality: A Metaphysical Inquiry presents a new theory of social truth and social construction. The book weds truthmaker theory with recent work in social ontology, arguing that social truths are true in virtue of socially constructed portions of the world. It focuses on the construction of human social kinds like gender, race, class, and disability. The book of...(展开全部)

Contemporary theorists use the term "social construction" with the aim of exposing how what's purportedly "natural" is often at least partly social and, more specifically, how this masking of the social is politically significant. In these previously published essays, Sally Haslanger draws on insights from feminist and critical race theory to explore and develop the idea that ...(展开全部)

〔英〕罗杰·科特雷尔（Roger Cotterrell），法学与社会学硕士、法学博士，伦敦大学玛丽皇后学院法学理论荣誉教授，英国国家学术院院士、英国社会科学院院士，获得社会-法律研究协会授予的终身贡献奖，主要研究领域包括社会法律理论与法理学、比较法。 李俊，社会学博士，华东政法大学社会发展学院教授，主要研究领域：法律社会学、社会政策、社会研究方法。著有《社会结构变迁视野下的农村纠纷研究》（中国社会科学出版社2013年出版），《从生存到发展：转型时期农民工城市创业研究》（中国经济出版社2017年出版），在核心期刊发表论文40多篇，主持和参与多项国家与省部级社科基金项目。 张万洪，法学博士，武汉大学法学院教授，武汉大学人权研究院执行院长，武汉大学公益与发展法律研究中心主任，主要研究领域：法理学与人权法。

〔英〕罗杰·科特雷尔（Roger Cotterrell），法学与社会学硕士、法学博士，伦敦大学玛丽皇后学院法学理论荣誉教授，英国国家学术院院士、英国社会科学院院士，获得社会-法律研究协会授予的终身贡献奖，主要研究领域包括社会法律理论与法理学、比较法。 李俊，社会学博士，华东政法大学社会发展学院教授，主要研究领域：法律社会学、社会政策、社会研究方法。著有《社会结构变迁视野下的农村纠纷研究》（中国社会科学出版社2013年出版），《从生存到发展：转型时期农民工城市创业研究》（中国经济出版社2017年出版），在核心期刊发表论文40多篇，主持和参与多项国家与省部级社科基金项目。 张万洪，法学博士，武汉大学法学院教授，武汉大学人权研究院执行院长，武汉大学公益与发展法律研究中心主任，主要研究领域：法理学与人权法。

For over twenty years Charles C. Ragin has been at the forefront of the development of innovative methods for social scientists. In "Redesigning Social Inquiry", he continues his campaign to revitalize the field, challenging major aspects of the conventional template for social science research while offering a clear alternative."Redesigning Social Inquiry" provides a substanti...(展开全部)

Where and when have investigators aspired to study human culture with more trustworthy or 'objective' methods borrowed from the natural sciences? This book revisits the dominant scientific method, 'coding,' with which investigators from sociology to literary criticism have sampled texts and catalogued their cultural messages. By returning to the primary documents used in canoni...(展开全部)

This treatise is a look at how social reality is constructed from sense impressions - at how, for example, a "five-pound note" is constructed, with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper that is seen and touched.

This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a 'five-pound note' with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch.

In The Construction of Social Reality, John Searle argues that there are two kinds of facts--some that are independent of human observers, and some that require human agreement.