ABSTRACT
Peter Winch's The Idea of a Social Science discusses the nature of social regularity in terms of the rules for deciding the equivalency of events. Social theorizing about real-worldly phenomena can capture an aura of observability, and avoid a speculative tone by trading on the strong sense of the observability of real-world activities. Sign-reading practices, with an unseen referenced by signs, as a means of meeting the visibility criterion, can be seen as an account which constitutes the objects of social theorizing as real-worldly in that it accounts for its theoretic constructions as objects referentiable via signs. A constructive analytic theoretic construct has a relation only to the data providing its empirically demonstrable existence as world-sensible, as real-worldly, but that data is not the world's events; it is rather the material reflexively constitutive of the construct as a piece of constructive analytic social theorizing. For constructive analytic social theorizing 'indication' is the provision of the real-worldly character of theoretic constructs.
