I will research John Searle’s (1) idea of a social causation as a collective intentionality and (according to my understanding) even more important notion of a background. Furthermore, I will compare Searle’s notions of the collective intentionality and the background of the social to Maurizio Ferraris’s (2) notions of a text as a replacement of the collective intentionality. The problems that Ferraris addresses are understood here in terms of practises. In this article I will look at more contemporary debates in social ontology and in a practise approach. Theodore Schatzki (3) is a pioneer in this approach. I will also look at economics as social theory and theneomaterialist basis for economics needed according to many debates now days. My viewpoint to Searle comes from two ordinary language philosophers: John Austin and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Performatives and speech acts are also economic tool. I will concentratein understanding ofthe background as the collective intentionality, of being a part of the practise in general. This is a neomaterialist intuition I argue could be against Searele’s ideas in constructive ways. There is Schatzkis positioning of neomaterialist ideas as competitor or part of practise approach I will look in here.
