A New Societist Social Ontology
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- 1 June 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Philosophy of the Social Sciences
- Vol. 33 (2), 174-202
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0048393103033002002
Abstract
This article delineates a new type of social ontology—site ontology—and defends a particular version of that type. The first section establishes the distinctiveness of site ontologies over both individualist ontologies and previous societist ones. The second section then shows how site ontologies elude two pervasive criticisms, that of incompleteness directed at individualism and that of reification leveled at societism. The third section defends a particular site ontology, one that depicts the social as a mesh of human practices and material arrangements. The article concludes by outlining what is involved in giving site-ontological analyses of social things.Keywords
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