Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-235) and indexes
1. The Building Blocks of Social Reality -- 2. Creating Institutional Facts -- 3. Language and Social Reality -- 4. The General Theory of Institutional Facts Part I: Iteration, Interaction, and Logical Structure -- 5. The General Theory of Institutional Facts Part II: Creation, Maintenance, and the Hierarchy -- 6. Background Abilities and the Explanation of Social Phenomena -- 7. Does the Real World Exist? Part I: Attacks on Realism -- 8. Does the Real World Exist? Part II: Could There Be a Proof of External Realism? -- 9. Truth and Correspondence