Rom Harré was a philosopher of science who is especially known for his contributions to psychology. But a lot of his writings can also be regarded as exercises in social theorizing and in tackling issues of the social ontology. This paper will argue that he introduced three innovations in the thinking about social ontology: (i) the primacy of conversations and speech acts as the ‘substance’ of the social world; (ii) the distinction between different epistemological realms when dealing with the social ontology and (iii) the introduction of a new way to think about the levels of the social reality. Moreover, it will be argued that throughout the many concepts and models Harré used to explain and understand the social reality, lays a remarkable unity and consistency in how he pictures and theorizes the society and social phenomena. Using the conceptual scheme developed by Maddi, a Harré inspired general social theory is presented that can also be read as an attempt to provide a synthesis/summary of his social theory, complemented with some insights developed by other scholars. It is proposed to label this theory as the Spoken World Theory. One of the distinct features of that theory is that it demonstrates that social and psychological phenomena are so entangled that it makes no sense to separate them and study them from a single social science’s disciplinary perspective.

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走向口语世界理论：罗姆·哈雷对推进社会理论的贡献

罗姆·哈雷 (Rom Harré) 是一位科学哲学家，以其对心理学的贡献而闻名。但他的许多著作也可以被视为社会理论化和解决社会本体论问题的练习。本文将论证他在社会本体论的思考中引入了三项创新：（i）对话和言语行为的首要地位作为社会世界的“实体”；(ii) 在处理社会本体论时不同认识论领域之间的区别，以及 (iii) 引入一种思考社会现实层次的新方法。此外，人们认为，在哈雷用来解释和理解社会现实的许多概念和模型中，在他对社会和社会现象的描绘和理论化方面具有非凡的统一性和一致性。使用 Maddi 开发的概念方案，提出了一种受哈雷启发的一般社会理论，也可以将其解读为试图对他的社会理论进行综合/总结，并辅以其他学者开发的一些见解。建议将此理论标记为口语世界理论。该理论的显着特征之一是它表明社会和心理现象是如此纠缠在一起，以至于将它们分开并从单一的社会科学学科角度研究它们是没有意义的。