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- Pocket, Engelska, 2000
- Författare: Ian Hacking
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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.
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.
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The Social Construction of What av Ian Hacking är en Pocket bok med 272 sidor på Engelska. Den utgavs 2000 av Harvard University Press.
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Används vid svenska universitet
Denna kurslitteratur används aktivt i 9 universitetskurser vid lärosäten runt om i Sverige, inklusive:
- Linnéuniversitetet: 4SHÄ4E , 4SK110 , 4MK804
- Göteborgs universitet: SK2111 , SW2391
- Lunds universitet: PSYP11 , PSYR11
- Stockholms universitet: UB300M , UB302M
Boken är särskilt populär inom Pedagogik & psykologi-programmen.
Produktinformation
Kategori:
Pedagogik & psykologi
Bandtyp:
Pocket
Språk:
Engelska
ISBN:
9780674004122
Upplaga:
0
Utgiven:
2000-11-01
Förlag:
Harvard University Press
Sidantal:
272