Social construction of what?
- Cambridge; Harvard University Press, 2000
- x, 261 p.; 24 cm.
Fifth printing, 2000 -- verso of t.p. Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-256) and index. English.
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.