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The Social Construction of What?
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Ian Hacking
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-11-15 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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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
The Social Construction of Reality
Language: en
Pages: 313
Authors: Peter L. Berger
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-04-26 - Publisher: Open Road Media

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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” (Ge
The Construction of Social Reality
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: John R. Searle
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-05-11 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a ‘five-pound note’ with all th
Mad Travelers
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Ian Hacking
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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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 c
The Social Construction of Nature
Language: en
Pages: 266
Authors: Klaus Eder
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-10-14 - Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited

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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 so