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050 0 0 _aBD175
_b.H29 1999
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100 1 _aHacking, Ian.
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245 1 4 _aThe social construction of what? /
_cIan Hacking.
260 _aCambridge, Mass :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c1999.
263 _a9905
300 _ax, 261 p. ;
_c25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [239]-256) and index.
505 0 0 _g1.
_tWhy Ask What? --
_g2.
_tToo Many Metaphors --
_g3.
_tWhat about the Natural Sciences? --
_g4.
_tMadness: Biological or Constructed? --
_g5.
_tKind-making: The Case of Child Abuse --
_g6.
_tWeapons Research --
_g7.
_tRocks --
_g8.
_tThe End of Captain Cook.
520 _aLost 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.
650 0 _aKnowledge, Sociology of.
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900 _bTOC
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_cMONOGRAPH
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