Title: The social construction of what?
First published: 1999
Description: 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.
Subjects: Knowledge, Sociology of, Sociology of Knowledge, Philosophy, New York Times reviewed, Reality, Social norms, Social values, Theory of Knowledge, Philosophy and science, General, Knowledge, Sociology
LC classification: BD175 .H29 1999