The social construction of what? /
Hacking, Ian.
The social construction of what? / Ian Hacking. - Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press, 1999. - x, 261 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [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. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
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.
067481200X (alk. paper)
98046140
Knowledge, Sociology of.
BD175 / .H29 1999
121
The social construction of what? / Ian Hacking. - Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press, 1999. - x, 261 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [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. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
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.
067481200X (alk. paper)
98046140
Knowledge, Sociology of.
BD175 / .H29 1999
121