On social facts /

Publisher description: Are social groups real in any sense that is independent of the thoughts, actions, and beliefs of the individuals making up the group? Using methods of philosophy to examine such longstanding sociological questions, Margaret Gilbert gives a general characterization of the core...

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Main Author:	Gilbert, Margaret, 1942-
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1992.
Series:	Princeton paperbacks.
Subjects:	Gruppe ... Sociology > Methodology. Social groups. Social action. Collective behavior. Mass Behavior social groups. PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy. Collective behavior Social action Social groups Sociology > Methodology Kollektive Handlung Soziologische Theorie Gruppe Soziales Handeln Gruppenverhalten Metasoziologie Sociale werkelijkheid. Sociologie. Soziologie > Methode. Handlung. Sociologie > Méthodologie. Groupes sociaux. Action sociale. Comportement collectif. Soziales Handeln. Gruppenverhalten. Metasoziologie. Burge, Tyler. Descartes, Rene. Douglas, Jack. Gauthier, David. Gilbert, Margaret. Harman, Gilbert. Kripke, Saul. Lewis, David. MacIntyre, A. Plato. Quinton, Anthony. Schiffer, Stephen. Taylor, Charles. Von Mises, Ludwig. Weber, Max. anthropology. associational obligations. coextensive social groups. common knowledge. economic classes. evaluability condition. joining a social group. mysticism. natural necessity. norms. participant agency. politics: elections. precedent. questioning. secrecy situation. travelling together.
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Table of Contents:

Cover Page
Half-title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
Preface and acknowledgements
I. Introduction: everyday concepts and social reality
1. Preamble
2. The focus and thesis of this book
3. Social science and everyday concepts
4. Weber on everyday collectivity concepts
5. The everyday concept of a collectivity
6. Methodology
7. The main themes
8. Overview of chapters
II. 'Social action' and the subject matter of social science
1. Introduction
2. Weber's account of 'social action'
3. The question of collectivities
4. Further considerations on Weber's concept
5. Conclusions
III. Action, meaning, and the social
1. Introduction
2. The deep level of the discussion
3. Winch on rule-following
4. Kripke's Wittgenstein
5. The intentionalist programme
6. Group languages
IV. Social groups: a Simmelian view
1. Introduction: Simmel's statement
2. On Sharing in an action
3. 'We'
4. Social Groups
V. After Durkheim: concerning collective belief
1. Introduction
2. Durkheim on social facts: some salient features of the Rules discussion
3. Assessing accounts of collective beliefs: some tests
4. The simple summative account
5. A second summative account: adding common knowledge
6. A third summative account: the group as cause
7. A nonsummative account of collective belief
VI. Social convention
1. Introduction
2. David Lewis on convention
3. Critique of Lewis (1): A flawless mechanism?
4. Critique of Lewis (2): Lewis's conditions on convention
5. Critique of Lewis (3): Lewis and the 'ought'of convention
6. Critique of Lewis (4): conventions and collectivities
7. Towards an account of social convention
8. Social convention
VII. On social facts
1. The structure of everyday collectivity concepts:summary of results
2. The actions of participating individual men'
3. Concerning 'individualism' versus 'holism'
4. A sketch of some further applications
5. On social facts
6. Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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