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The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
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What is "society," and can there be such a thing as a "social fact"?…more

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Tyler
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Political thought since the Enlightenment has turned largely on an apparent opposition between society and the individual. From this has emerged a libertarian argument that society and social facts are actually meaningless notions. Philosophy has largely lost interest in the question with the advent of positivism, yet positivism is itself a contentious proposition.

The validity of the idea of “society” has been taken up in two books with maddeningly similar titles. The first, The Construction of
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