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The social construction of what?

  • Ian Hacking

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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.

Genres

  • Knowledge, Sociology of
  • Sociology of Knowledge
  • Philosophy
  • New York Times reviewed
  • Reality
  • Social norms
  • Social values
  • Theory of Knowledge
  • Philosophy and science
  • General
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  • Ian Hacking

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    Harvard University Press, imusti

    Nov 15, 2000

  • Edition cover

    Harvard University Press

    1999