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The social construction of what? / Ian Hacking
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TextPublication details: London, England : Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts , 1999Description: x, 261 pages ; 24 cmISBN: - 067481200X
- 9780674812000
- 0674004124
- 9780674004122
- ARCH YNDC 121 H121S 21
- BD175 .H29 1999
Contents:
Review: "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
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
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SAIACS Archives Room | Yandell Collection | ARCH YNDC 121 H121S (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | 062127 |
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
"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
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