Social entities make up our immediate environment: social and cultural objects, groups and symbolic entities. But these entities have a very special status, because in a world without human beings, it would be difficult to argue that they would continue to exist. This distinguishes them from the objects of science. For if social entities depend on a material substratum (their support), they also depend on a mental component: they are not indifferent to the representations and meanings assigned to them.
Does this mean that these entities are not real? No. The aim is to see why and how these entities exist, how their hybrid character manifests itself in the course of events (under what conditions and constraints), and also to examine the mode of existence of these emerging entities.
