SOCIAL REALITY

Social reality is distinct from biological or individual cognitive reality, and consists of the accepted social tenets of a community. Some sociologists, notably John Searle and Barry Wellman, believe that the social reality can be established separately from that of any individual or the surrounding ecology (at odds with the views of perceptual psychology including those of J. J. Gibson, and those of most ecological economics theories).

If one accepts the validity of the idea of social reality, scientifically, it must be amenable to measurement. Theories of the measurement of trust in the sociological community are usually called theories of social capital, to emphasize the connection to economics, and the ability to measure outputs in the same manner.

The best-known principle of social reality is "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 Emperor 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 Herman, which supports the 'big lie' thesis with more specifics.

Compare socially constructed reality

See also: social capital, community, propaganda, belief

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Domain	Title
Books	Race-ing Justice, En-Gendering Power : Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality (reference) Revolutionary Marxism and Social Reality in the 20th Century (reference) (more book examples)
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Modern Translation: SOCIAL REALITY

Language		Translations for "SOCIAL REALITY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		social virkelighed. (various references)

Dutch		sociale werkelijkheid. (various references)

Finnish		yhteiskunnallinen todellisuus. (various references)

French		réalité sociale. (various references)

German		soziale Wirklichkeit. (various references)

Greek		κοινωνική πραγματικότητα. (various references)

Italian		realt� sociale. (various references)

Pig Latin		ocialsay ealityray

Portuguese		realidade social. (various references)

Spanish		realidad social. (various references)

Swedish		social verklighet. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: SOCIAL REALITY

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	Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-i-i-l-l-o-r-s-t-y"
	-1 letter: aoristically.
	-2 letters: eristically, satirically.
	-3 letters: alacrities, allosteric, erotically, escalatory, illiteracy, localities, salicylate, sclerotial, societally, solitarily, sterically.
	-4 letters: acrylates, aerialist, aleatoric, aliteracy, allocates, allostery, altricial, callosity, clarities, cloistral, collarets, cryolites, elicitors, eristical, escalator, localites, loricates, loyalties, oralities, oscillate, racialist, rascality, realistic, rocailles, royalties, satirical, sclerotia, sectorial, socialite, sociality, solitaire, stoically, tailraces, teocallis.
	-5 letters: acerolas, acolytes, acrylate.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-i-i-l-l-o-r-s-t-y"
	+4 letters: recrystallization.
	+5 letters: recrystallizations.
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Domain	Definition
Social Sciences	Reality, or conception of what actually exists, that is established and maintained by the consensus of the group. Source: European Union. (references)
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