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The social construction of what? / Ian Hacking.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press, 2000Description: x, 261 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 067481200X
  • 9780674812000
  • 0674004124
  • 9780674004122
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 121 21
LOC classification:
  • BD175 .H29 1999
Contents:
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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references 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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