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  The Social Construction of What? (Paperback) By (author) Ian Hacking

  

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  Short Description for The Social Construction of What?Often lost in the debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what is being constructed. Ian Hacking looks at the issue of child abuse, and examines the ways in which advanced research on new weapons influences not the content but the form of science.
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  • Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Published: 15 November 2000
  • Format: Paperback 272 pages
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  • Categories: Literary Theory | Philosophy Of Science | History Of Western Philosophy | Western Philosophy, From C 1900 - | Philosophy: Epistemology & Theory Of Knowledge | Social & Political Philosophy
  • ISBN 13: 9780674004122 ISBN 10: 0674004124
  • Sales rank: 97,577

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• Often lost in the debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what is being constructed. Particularly troublesome in this area is the status of the natural sciences, where there is conflict between biological and social approaches to mental illness, and in other areas. Ian Hacking looks at the issue of child abuse, and 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 the spat between leading enthnographers over Hawaii and Captain Cook.