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Social Ontology


Social ontology is the study of the nature of the social world. This Element aims to provide an overview of this burgeoning field, and also to map the questions that theories in social ontology address.
Brian Epstein
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The nature of social reality: issues in social ontology

Journal of Critical Realism, 2021
Tony Lawson’s book The Nature of Social Reality is an impressive overview of a philosophically coherent social ontology that he has been developing for at least a decade.
Dave Elder-Vass
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All Affordances Are Social: Foundations of a Gibsonian Social Ontology

Ecological psychology, 2021
Ecological psychology is built on a perception-oriented ontology. The primary focus has been on explaining the perception and action behavior of individual animals. To accommodate social phenomena within the ecological approach, it is necessary to expand
E. Baggs
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Vagueness and social ontology: Implications of inquiry resistant borderline cases for social ontological theorising

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 2021
The aim of the paper is to develop a critique of the explanatory scope of social ontology as developed by the Cambridge Social Ontology Group (CSOG) by reference to semantic and ontic vagueness.
Imko Meyenburg, Ana Maria Turcitu
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Cambridge social ontology, the philosophical critique of modern economics and social positioning theory: an interview with Tony Lawson, part 2

, 2021
In Part 1 of this wide-ranging interview, Tony Lawson discussed his role in, and relationship to, Critical Realism as well as various defences of mathematical modelling in economics.
T. Lawson, J. Morgan
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Social ontology

The Subject of Human Being, 2018
Christopher W. Haley
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Social Ontology and Model-Building: A Response to Epstein

, 2021
Brian Epstein has recently argued that a thoroughly microfoundationalist approach towards economics is unconvincing for metaphysical reasons. Generally, Epstein argues that for an improvement in the methodology of social science we must adopt social ...
Nadia Ruiz
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Social Ontology De-dramatized

, 2020
The article responds to Richard Lauer’s (2019) “Is Social Ontology Prior to Social Scientific Methodology?” The article concurs that “social ontology matters” for the conduct of research and theory in social science.
D. Little
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The Nature of Social Reality: Issues in Social Ontology, by Tony Lawson

, 2020
The Nature of Social Reality: Issues in Social Ontology, by Tony Lawson. London and New York: Routledge. 2019.
W. Waller
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