Social reality is currently a hotly debated topic not only in social sciencebut also in philosophy and the other humanities. Finn Collin in this conciseguide as... » 

Social reality is currently a hotly debated topic not only in social sciencebut also in philosophy and the other humanities. Finn Collin in this conciseguide asks if social reality is created by the way social agents conceive ofit? Is there a difference between the kind of existence attributed to socialand to physical facts do physical facts enjoy a more independent existence?To what extent is social reality a matter of social convention.Finn Collin considers a number of traditional doctrines which support theconstructivist position that social reality is generated by ourinterpretation of it. He also examines the way social facts are contingentupon the meaning invested in them by social agents the nature of socialconvention the status of social facts as symbolic the ways in which sociallyshared language is claimed to generate the reality described as well as thelimitations of some of the overambitious popular arguments for socialconstructivism. «