ABSTRACT
A survey of the applications of grounding to central debates and topics in the study of the social world. Three main applications are examined: how the notion of social construction may be analyzed in ground-theoretic terms; how debates over the nature of social facts may be fruitfully recast as grounding debates; and how the doctrine of ontological individualism may be elucidated using the notion of ground. The chapter concludes by briefly discussing skepticism about such applications of grounding.
