What is social reality?

[Owen]

How has the NFL Draft adapted to the social reality of the teams?

Any info regarding these topics would be massively welcome, thanks!

[Jody]

Social reality may be considered as consisting of the accepted social tenets of a community, involving relatively stable laws and Social representations.

Radical constructivism would cautiously describe social reality as the product of uniformities among observers.

Durkheim stressed the disctinc nature of the "social kingdom." Here more than anywhere else the idea is the reality."

Searle argued that institutional realities interact with each other in what he called "systematic relationships (e.g. governments, marriages, corporations, universities, armies, churches) to create a multi-layered social reality.

For Searle, language was the key to the formation of social reality becase "language is precisely designed to be a self-identifying category of institutional facts" - a system of publicly and widely accepted symbols which "persist through time independently of the urges and inclinations of the participants."

One aspect of social reality is the principle of "The Big Lie" which states that an outrageous untruth is easier to convince people of than a less outrageous truth. Many examples from politics and theology, e.g., the claim that the Roman Emporer was in fact a "god" demonstrate that this principle was known by effective propagandists from early times, and continues to be applied to this day, e.g. the propaganda model of Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman which supports the "Big Lie" thesis with more specifics.

Social media confirms that the NFL's reputation has been intercepted, though it won't likely affect tv ratings in a national consumer marketplace that may as well be called the United States of Football.

The pro football league is under a lot of scrutiny for failing to come to financial terms with its regular referees. During the first 2 weeks of the season, the replacement refs were not getting the job done, screamed sport blogs, talk radio hosts and legions of fans.