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Two concepts of attachment to rules
journal contribution
posted on 2014-02-28, 13:08 authored by Christian Greiffenhagen, Wes SharrockIn this paper, we discuss the implications of John Rawls’ (1955) paper “Two concepts
of rules” for social science. We argue that Rawls’ notion of ‘practice’ is not a
straightforward contribution to sociological theory, but rather re-orients the idea of
what understanding social actions might consist of. We explicate how Rawls’
distinction between ‘summary’ and ‘practice’ views of rules might play out in
approaching mathematical practice and mathematical expressions. We argue that
social constructivists like Bloor hold on to a ‘summary’ conception of rules while
Wittgenstein adopts the more radical ‘practice’ conception.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Citation
GREIFFENHAGEN, C. and SHARROCK, W., 2009. Two concepts of attachment to rules. Journal of Classical Sociology, 9 (4), pp. 405 - 427Publisher
SAGE Publications / © The Author(s)Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2009Notes
This article was published in the serial, Journal of Classical Sociology [SAGE Publications / © The Author(s)]. The definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468795X09344450ISSN
1468-795XeISSN
1741-2897Publisher version
Language
- en