Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Group 3
KEY FEATURES
Assumed reality- Social Construction
Finite provinces of meaning and shared objectified
reality (Fig 1)
Dialectical relationship (Fig 2)
Thesis-antithesis-Synthesis
Social Science studies concepts- Actors conceptions
of their experiences
Objectified Reality
Reality : a social
construction
Institutionalization
common typification of some habitual act. We
typify not only actors but also their actions.
Legitimization
social control in order to explain and justify
institutions
Metatheories
These meta theories help creators of knowledge to
interpret actors first hand impressions
Metapsychological theory offers principles for
understanding subjectification process of individuals
Metasociological theory offers understanding of how
externalised meanings become objectified
Metapolitical theory helps understand the power
relations between members of a group or between
groups
Metahistorical theories offers understanding of the
historical processes
Understanding and
interpretation
Language is a medium through which a
consensus is arrived at on this reality ;
divergence from objectified reality to a
subjective interpretation and then to a
common understanding
Language is used to describe, interpret
and externalise the descriptions so that
creators and others can visualise the
egological sphere of actors and their finite
province of meaning