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The Construction of Social Reality.

Susan Babbitt, +1 more
- 01 Oct 1997 - 
- Vol. 106, Iss: 4, pp 608
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This article is published in The Philosophical Review.The article was published on 1997-10-01. It has received 3213 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Consensus reality & Social reality.

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International Norm Dynamics and Political Change

TL;DR: The authors argue that norms evolve in a three-stage "life cycle" of emergence, cascades, and internalization, and that each stage is governed by different motives, mechanisms, and behavioral logics.
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Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition

TL;DR: It is argued and present evidence that great apes understand the basics of intentional action, but they still do not participate in activities involving joint intentions and attention (shared intentionality), and children's skills of shared intentionality develop gradually during the first 14 months of life.
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Discursive Institutionalism: The Explanatory Power of Ideas and Discourse

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The Institutional Dynamics of International Political Orders

TL;DR: The authors argue that the tendency of students of international political order to emphasize efficient histories and consequential bases for action leads them to underestimate the significance of rule-and identity-based action and inefficient histories.