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Social Constructionism: Consensus Reality, Social Epistemology, Social Reality, Social Constructionism, Steve Fuller
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-06.
ISBN 9781155723303
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Consensus Reality, Social Epistemology, Social Reality, Social Constructionism, Steve Fuller, Scandinavian Activity Theory, Social Construction of Schizophrenia, Sociology of Scientific Knowledge, Social Construction of Technology, Reality Tunnel, David Roediger, Real Life, Taos Institute, Sheila Mcnamee, Social Determinism. Excerpt: Consensus reality is an approach to answering the question "What is real ?", a philosophical question, with answers dating back millennia; it is almost invariably used to refer to human consensus reality, though there have been mentions of feline and canine consensus reality. It gives a practical answer - reality is either what exists, or what we can agree by consensus seems to exist; the process has been (perhaps loosely and a bit imprecisely) characterised as " hen enough people think something is true, it... takes on a life of its own." The term is usually used disparagingly as by implication it may mean little more than "what a group or culture chooses to believe, " and may bear little or no relationship to any "true reality", and, indeed, challenges the notion of "true reality". For example, Steven Yates has characterised the idea that the United States Federal Reserve Notes (not "backed" by anything) are "really worth a dollar" as "part of what we might call our consensus-reality, real reality." The difficulty with the question stems from the concern that human beings do not in fact fully understand or agree upon the nature of knowledge or knowing, and therefore (it is often argued) it is not possible to be certain beyond doubt what is real. Accordingly, this line of logic concludes, we cannot in fact be sure beyond doubt about the nature of reality. We can, however, seek to obtain some form of consensus, with others, of what is real. We can u
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