This broad-ranging and clearly structured book critically overviews the many themes of social constructionism and its relevance to contemporary social and political issues. It brings together leading international contributors from across the social sciences, drawing on insights from psychology, sociology, politics, philosophy, cultural, gender and science studies. Major questions and topics explored in its critique and application of constructionist ideas include the theory and practice of scientific method, the development of social and political policy, the use of social science statistical methods, self-identity and the politics of collective identities, and technological advances in reproductive medicine.
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A broad ranging and critical overview of the many themes of social constructionism and its relevance to contemporary social and political issues. Links the discourse of constructionism to the wider social and political world and demonstrates that social science is enriched by postmodernism.
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Introduction - Irving Velody and Robin Williams PART ONE: FORMULATING CONSTRUCTIONISM Towards a Constructivist Genealogy of Social Constructivism - Michael Lynch Constructionist Dialogues and the Vicissitudes of the Politics - Kenneth Gergen On Being More Literal about Construction - Ian Hacking PART TWO: THE LIMITS OF CONSTRUCTIONISM What Does the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge Explain? - Paul A Roth The Reflexive Politics of Constructivism Revisited - Steve Fuller Unconstructive - Wil Coleman and Wes Sharrock The Limits of Social Constructionism - Stephen Turner PART THREE: APPLYING CONSTRUCTIONISM Relations, Communication and Power - Ian Burkitt Social Constructionism and the New Technologies of Reproduction - Erica Haimes and Robin Williams The Social Construction of Outliers - Sandy Lovie and Pat Lovie Procedure, Reflexivity and Social Constructionism - Philip Manning Social Constructionism as a Political Strategy - Tom Shakespeare PART FOUR: THE POLITICS OF CONSTRUCTIONISM Questions of Method - Mitchell Dean Social Constructionist Political Theory - Craig Mackenzie Constructionism, Authority and the Ethical Life - Thomas Osborne
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Product details

ISBN
9780761950417
Published
1998-06-10
Publisher
Vendor
SAGE Publications Inc
Weight
550 gr
Height
234 mm
Width
156 mm
Age
U, P, 05, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
256