Sure. When we’re looking at socially constructed stuff, though, I’m not sure it makes sense to treat its reality as discrete rather than continuous.
It’s tempting to use money as a measure of social reality, actually, since it’s valuable directly in proportion to people’s belief in its value. Unfortunately it’s hard to put a dollar value on, say, traffic laws, which share the same property (a point driven home for me the first time I encountered rush-hour traffic in Manila).
Sure. When we’re looking at socially constructed stuff, though, I’m not sure it makes sense to treat its reality as discrete rather than continuous.
It’s tempting to use money as a measure of social reality, actually, since it’s valuable directly in proportion to people’s belief in its value. Unfortunately it’s hard to put a dollar value on, say, traffic laws, which share the same property (a point driven home for me the first time I encountered rush-hour traffic in Manila).