TY  - BOOK
AU  - Velody,Irving
AU  - Williams,Robin
TI  - The politics of constructionism
T2  - Social Theory Ser
SN  - 9781849206839
AV  - HM26 .P63 1998eb
U1  - 302 22
PY  - 1998///
CY  - London, Thousand Oaks, Calif.
PB  - SAGE Publications
KW  - Social constructionism
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Knowledge, Theory of
KW  - Constructivisme (Sociologie)
KW  - Sociologie
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - Sciences sociales
KW  - Théorie de la connaissance
KW  - epistemology
KW  - aat
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY
KW  - Social Psychology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Sociología
KW  - Metodología
KW  - embne
KW  - Filosofía
KW  - fast
KW  - Constructivisme
KW  - gtt
KW  - Wetenschapssociologie
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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