Abstract This chapter develops an account of social construction and defends a broad critical social realism according to which certain entities and kinds are socially constructed; however, the claim that they are socially constructed, on this account, provides no basis for concluding that they are anything less than fully real. The question arises how to distinguish natural and social kinds, if not by their reality. The chapter argues for a broad naturalism and a minimalist notion of kind which together allow us to include the social within the natural world. The natural world is all there is and we are part of it.
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