The politics of constructionism / edited by Irving Velody and Robin Williams.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Irving Velody and Robin Williams -- Towards a constructivist genealogy of social constructivism / Michael Lynch -- Constructionist dialogues and the vicissitudes of the political / Kenneth J. Gergen -- On being more literal about construction / Ian Hacking -- 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 -- 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 -- Questions of method / Mitchell Dean -- Social constructionist political theory / Craig Mackenzie -- Constructionism, authority, and the ethical life / Thomas Osborne.

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.

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