The Social Construction Of What
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Author | : Ian Hacking |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1999-05-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780674812000 |
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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.
Author | : Peter L. Berger |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2011-04-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1453215468 |
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A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced “a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally” (George Simpson, American Sociological Review). In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and Luckmann go beyond intellectual history and focus on commonsense, everyday knowledge—the proverbs, morals, values, and beliefs shared among ordinary people. When first published in 1966, this systematic, theoretical treatise introduced the term social construction,effectively creating a new thought and transforming Western philosophy.
Author | : Ian Hacking |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2000-11-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0674254279 |
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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. Especially troublesome in this dispute is the status of the natural sciences, and this is where Hacking finds some of his most telling cases, from the conflict between biological and social approaches to mental illness to vying accounts of current research in sedimentary geology. He looks at the issue of child abuse—very much a reality, though the idea of child abuse is a social product. He also cautiously examines the ways in which advanced research on new weapons influences not the content but the form of science. In conclusion, Hacking comments on the “culture wars” in anthropology, in particular a spat between leading ethnographers over Hawaii and Captain Cook. Written with generosity and gentle wit by one of our most distinguished philosophers of science, this wise book brings a much needed measure of clarity to current arguments about the nature of knowledge.
Author | : K.J. Gergen |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1461250765 |
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This volume grew out of a discussion between the editors at the Society for Experimental Social Psychology meeting in Nashville in 1981. For many years the Society has played a leading role in encouraging rigorous and sophisticated research. Yet, our discussion that day was occupied with what seemed a major problem with this fmely honed tradition; namely, it was preoccupied with "accurate renderings of reality," while generally insensitive to the process by which such renderings are achieved. This tradition presumed that there were "brute facts" to be discovered about human interaction, with little consideration of the social processes through which "factuality" is established. To what degree are accounts of persons constrained by the social process of rendering as opposed to the features of those under scrutiny? This concern with the social process by which persons are constructed was hardly ours alone. In fact, within recent years such concerns have been voiced with steadily increasing clarity across a variety of disciplines. Ethno methodologists were among the first in the social sciences to puncture the taken-for-granted realities of life. Many sociologists of science have also turned their attention to the way social organizations of scientists create the facts necessary to sustain these organizations. Historians of science have entered a similar enterprise in elucidating the social, economic and ideological conditions enabling certain formulations to flourish in the sciences while others are suppressed. Many social anthropologists have also been intrigued by cross-cultural variations in the concept of the human being.
Author | : Mark Rapley |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2004-06-10 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780521005296 |
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Author | : Klaus Eder |
Publisher | : SAGE Publications Limited |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1996-10-14 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
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This is a unique and agenda-setting interpretation of nature and ecology that will become the essential reference in any debate on environmental politics and sociology.
Author | : Ian Hacking |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780674009547 |
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Reflections on the Reality of transient mental illnessThis text uses the case of Albert Dadas, the first diagnosed "mad traveller", to weigh the legitimacy of cultural versus physical symptoms in the diagnosis of psychiatric disorders. The author argues that psychological symptoms find niches where transient illnesses flourish.
Author | : David Polizzi |
Publisher | : Policy Press |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1447327322 |
Download A Philosophy of the Social Construction of Crime Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book situates the social construction of crime and criminal behaviour within the philosophical context of phenomenology and explores how these constructions inform, and justify, the policies employed to address them. It is essential reading for academics and students interested in social theory and theories of criminology.
Author | : Shaun Gallagher |
Publisher | : OUP UK |
Total Pages | : 759 |
Release | : 2011-02-10 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0199548013 |
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The Oxford Handbook of the Self explores a fascinating diversity of questions about our understanding of self from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, including philosophy, ethics, psychology, neuroscience, psychopathology, narrative, and postmodern theories.
Author | : Karen Sternheimer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020-04-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780393419481 |
Download Everyday Sociology Reader Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Innovative readings and blog posts show how sociology can help us understand everyday life.