# The Construction of Social Reality

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- Book: [The Construction of Social Reality](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-r-searle/the-construction-of-social-reality) ([The Construction of Social Reality.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-r-searle/the-construction-of-social-reality.md))
- Authors: [John R. Searle](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-r-searle)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4023-590-6
- Pages: 256
- Published: 1996-09-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a " five-pound note" with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch.