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The Social Construction of What?
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Artikel-Nr:
9780674004122
Veröffentl:
2000
Erscheinungsdatum:
15.11.2000
Seiten:
272
Autor:
Ian Hacking
Gewicht:
314 g
Format:
232x152x19 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Ian Hacking was University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. He held the Chair of Philosophy and History of Concepts at the Collège de France.
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.
Often lost in the debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what is being constructed. Ian Hacking looks at the issue of child abuse, and examines the ways in which advanced research on new weapons influences not the content but the form of science.
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