The "Social Ontology" course intends to investigate by phenomenological means what is called "social", thus not through empirical measurements as the social sciences operate, nor even by analysing the meaning of so-called social objects, but by means of the concrete perceptibility that individuals have of what we can call social space, seeking to investigate phenomenologically its constitution. The ground to investigate is to be found in the structuring of a social meaningfulness by virtue of the interaction of individuals, existences, subjects, beings. Social ontology, understood from this interpretative angle, therefore wants to question the way in which social structures are constituted within the so-called world of life.
Specifically, this year's course intends to examine the differences and contiguities between the world of everyday life, with its own significance, and that of an extra-ordinary spatio-temporal world, that of play.