Looking for books like John Searle’s Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization

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I read this recently, very interested in its claim to discuss how the social world created and propagates itself (very broad description, not really doing it justice I know, but kinda.) Anyway I am now grateful to have learned the word deontology and discovered social ontology is a thing, but still not really satisfied; it felt like generally he just said the social world goes on because we all agree it does.

Any recommendations for other books in this vein?

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    Heyo! Hopefully this meets the community rules! I tried to make this as organized as possible. This is 1/2 of the basis of what I study, so I have my own little library of references! That being said, LMK if you have any questions 🙂

    1. Searle:

    • Searle (1995). Construction of Social Reality. Link
    • Schmid et al. (Eds.). (2023). Collective Intentionality. Edited. Link

    2. “We”:

    • Bratman (2014). Shared Agency. Link
    • Gallagher & Zahavi (2020). Phenomenological Mind. Link

    3. Society:

    • Berger & Luckmann (1966). Social Construction of Reality. Link
    • MacIntyre (1984). After Virtue. Link

    4. Institutions:

    • Zucker (Ed.). (1988). Institutional Patterns. Edited. (No link)
    • Keister (Ed.). (2011). Work in China. Edited. Link