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100			_aHacking, Ian
245			_aSocial construction of what?
260			_bHarvard University Press, _c2000 _aCambridge;
300			_ax, 261 p.; _c24 cm.
365			_b34.50/INR 2663.40 _cUSD _d00
504			_aFifth printing, 2000 -- verso of t.p. Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-256) and index. English.
520			_aLost 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.
650			_aConstructivism
650			_aphilosophy
650			_aknowledge-sociology
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