Social structures are objectivated meanings built through inter-subjective exchange

Evidence

Between ideas and practical life, as everywhere else, there is reciprocal interaction; to ask which is cause and which effect is as futile as the problem of the hen and the egg. — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2169 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Micro-level symbolic encounters carry relative autonomy from the social structure; Situation-level symbolic transactions can influence society’s broader reproduction; Knowledge production operates through socially grounded language (+24 more)

Related

• Ideas and practical life mutually influence each other in a reciprocal interaction (similarity 0.84)
• Micro-level symbolic encounters carry relative autonomy from the social structure (similarity 0.80)
• Social relations are essentially structures of everyday knowledge (similarity 0.79)
• Social relations reduce to structures of knowledge in Schutz’s extreme sociology (similarity 0.79)
• Situation-level symbolic transactions can influence society’s broader reproduction (similarity 0.79)
• Enlightenment-based sociology fragments because theories depend on observers’ beliefs about human nature (similarity 0.79)
• Objects are studied as social relations, not physical things (similarity 0.78)
• Lévi-Strauss’s deep structure decouples meaning from observable social relations (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Social relations reduce to structures of knowledge in Schutz’s extreme sociology #expands (0.70)
• Lévi-Strauss’s deep structure decouples meaning from observable social relations #complicates (0.55)
• Social formation elements articulate with each other in complex ways #corroborates (0.50)
• Ideas and practical life mutually influence each other in a reciprocal interaction #corroborates (0.50) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2169