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The Social Construction of What?

Av: Materialtyp: TextUtgivningsuppgift: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1999Datum för upphovsrätt: ©1999Utgåva: 1st edBeskrivning: 1 online resource (272 pages)Innehållstyp:
  • text
Medietyp:
  • computer
Bärartyp:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674254251
Genre/form: DDK-klassifikation:
  • 121
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Innehåll:
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.
Sammanfattning: 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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