This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a "five-pound note" with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch.

The building blocks of social reality
creating institutional facts
language and social reality
the general theory of institutional facts part I - iteration, interaction, and logical structure
the general theory of institutional facts part II - creation, maintenance, and the hierarchy
background abilities and the explanation of social phenomena
does the real world exist? part I - attacks on realism
does the real world exist? part II - could there be a proof of external realism?
truth and correspondence.