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Cambridge Social Ontology

The Cambridge Social Ontology Group, or CSOG, was formed with the aim of pursuing social ontology, the systematic study of the nature and basic structure of social reality.

Cambridge Social Ontology: An Introduction to Social Positioning Theory Book Cover
New Book Published

Cambridge Social Ontology: An Introduction to Social Positioning Theory

Newnham College Photo
Cambridge Realist Workshops

See the upcoming and past Cambridge Realist Workshops

Group photo outside Girton College
Conference celebrating 10 Years of the Realist Workshop

100 past participants of the realist workshop got together and debated current issues in the methodology of economics

Lawson and Searle Photo
'Critical Issues in Social Ontology' Workshop

May 2014. Lawson and Searle take time out at the Orchard Tea Garden in Granchester.

Collage of Cambridge Realist Workshop
Workshop in Session Gallery

Photo Gallery from the Cambridge Realist Workshop

Group photo outside Girton College
Marking departures from Cambridge, Girton, June 1999

Event held at Girton College in June 1999, in part to mark the departure from Cambridge of various workshop participants.

Cambridge Social Ontology

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