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The Social Construction of What?

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1999Copyright date: ©1999Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (272 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674254251
Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 121
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Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Why Ask What? -- Chapter 2. Too Many Metaphors -- Chapter 3. What about the Natural Sciences? -- Chapter 4. Madness: Biological or Constructed? -- Chapter 5. Kind-making: The Case of Child Abuse -- Chapter 6. Weapons Research -- Chapter 7. Rocks -- Chapter 8. The End of Captain Cook -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
Summary: Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Ian Hacking's book explores an array of examples to reveal the deep issues underlying contentious accounts of reality--especially regarding the status of the natural sciences.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Why Ask What? -- Chapter 2. Too Many Metaphors -- Chapter 3. What about the Natural Sciences? -- Chapter 4. Madness: Biological or Constructed? -- Chapter 5. Kind-making: The Case of Child Abuse -- Chapter 6. Weapons Research -- Chapter 7. Rocks -- Chapter 8. The End of Captain Cook -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Ian Hacking's book explores an array of examples to reveal the deep issues underlying contentious accounts of reality--especially regarding the status of the natural sciences.

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