TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hacking,Ian
TI  - The social construction of what?
SN  - 067481200X
AV  - BD175 .H29 1999
U1  - ARCH YNDC 121 H121S  21
PY  - 1999///
CY  - London, England
PB  - Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts , 
KW  - Knowledge, Sociology of
KW  - Reality
KW  - Social norms
KW  - Social values
KW  - Knowledge, Theory of
KW  - Philosophy and science
KW  - Knowledge
KW  - sociology
KW  - Social Values
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-256) and index; Why ask what? -- Too many metaphors -- What about the natural sciences? -- Madness: biological or constructed? -- Kind-making: the case of child abuse -- Weapons research -- Rocks -- The end of Captain Cook
N2  - "Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Is it a person? An object? An idea? A theory? Each entails a different notion of social construction, Ian Hacking reminds us. His book explores an array of examples to reveal the deep issues underlying contentious accounts of reality."--Jacket
ER  -