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Theories and theory groups in contemporary American sociology
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ISBN: 0060446498 Year: 1973 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Harper and Row

The social construction of what?
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ISBN: 067481200X 0674004124 9780674004122 9780674812000 Year: 1999 Publisher: Cambridge : 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 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. Especially troublesome in this dispute is the status of the natural sciences, and this is where Hacking finds some of his most telling cases, from the conflict between biological and social approaches to mental illness to vying accounts of current research in sedimentary geology. He looks at the issue of child abuse - very much a reality, though the idea of child abuse is a social product. He also cautiously examines the ways in which advanced research on new weapons influences not the content but the form of science. In conclusion, Hacking comments on the "culture wars" in anthropology, in particular a spat between leading ethnographers over Hawaii and Captain Cook. Written with generosity and gentle wit by one of our most distinguished philosophers of science, this wise book brings a much needed measure of clarity to current arguments about the nature of knowledge.

Representing reality : discourse, rhetoric and social construction.
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ISBN: 9780803984110 0803984111 Year: 1996 Publisher: London Sage

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Representing Reality overviews the different traditions in constructionist thought. Points are illustrated throughout with varied and engaging examples taken from newspaper stories, relationship counselling sessions, accounts of the paranormal, social workers′ assessments of violent parents, informal talk between programme makers, political arguments and everyday conversations. Ranging across the social and human sciences, this book provides a lucid introduction to several key strands of work that have overturned the way we think about facts and descriptions, including: the sociology of scientific knowledge; conversation analysis and ethnomethodology; and semiotics, post-structuralism and postmodernism.


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Hoe anders is anders ? : over wereldbeelden en Afrikaanse kennissystemen
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ISBN: 9064451478 Year: 2000 Volume: 6 Publisher: Berchem Mechelen EPO Centrum voor Internationaal Management en Interculturele Communicatie

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Neerslag van een studiedag die in maart 1999 georganiseerd werd door het Universitair Centrum voor Ontwikkelingssamenwerking (UCOS) en het Centrum Leo Apostel (CLEA). Doel: de vaststelling onderzoeken dat communicatieproblemen tussen culturen veelal te maken hebben met het anders denken over en het anders zien en beleven van de realiteit. In die context bogen de auteurs zich over een aantal vragen: Is het "andere" werkelijk zo onoverbrugbaar "anders"? Of is dit slechts een interpretatie? En zijn er in de realiteit niet veel meer gelijkenissen dan we vermoeden? Hebben we niet sedert geruime tijd dezelfde soort basisuitgangspunten als de nieuwste bevindingen in de wetenschappen erbij betrokken worden - bijvoorbeeld in verband met ruimte en tijd? Enerzijds willen de auteurs kennissystemen uit andere culturen "de-exotiseren" via een vergelijking met de nieuwste bevindingen in de wetenschap. Anderzijds zijn ze van mening dat ook de wetenschappen baat kunnen hebben bij een vergelijking met enkele elementen uit de Afrikaanse kennissystemen.

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