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 ...(展开全部)

This treatise is a look at how social reality is constructed from sense impressions - at how, for example, a "five-pound note" is constructed, with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper that is seen and touched.

This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a 'five-pound note' with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch.

In The Construction of Social Reality, John Searle argues that there are two kinds of facts--some that are independent of human observers, and some that require human agreement.

'Social construction' is a central metaphor in contemporary social science, yet it is used and understood in widely divergent and indeed conflicting ways by different thinkers. Most commonly, it is seen as radically opposed to realist social theory. Dave Elder-Vass argues that social scientists should be both realists and social constructionists, and that coherent versions of t...(展开全部)

作者简介： 布鲁诺·拉图尔（Bruno Latour），科学哲学家、科学社会学家。其著作包括《科学在行动：怎样在社会中跟随科学家和工程师》《我们从未现代过：对称性人类学论集》《自然的政治：如何把科学带入民主》等，在科学的文化与社会研究领域、科学哲学领域，乃至对整个后现代主义思潮，都产生了广泛的影响。 史蒂夫·伍尔加（Steve Woolgar），英国社会学家，在科学研究、科学知识社会学（SSK）和科学技术研究（STS）领域具有重要影响，著有《知识与反身性》《工作中的机器》等。

Georg Simmel's highly original take on the newly revived field of sociology succeeded in making the field far more sophisticated than it had been beforehand. He took insights from dialectical thought and Kantian epistemology to develop a 'form sociology' method that remains implicit in the field a century later. Forms include such patterns of interaction as inequality, secrecy,...(展开全部)

For psychotherapy students, teachers, and practitioners, this book describes the clinical application of the growing body of ideas and practices that has come to be known as narrative therapy. Clear and compelling demonstrations of narrative therapy practice, rich in case examples and creative strategies, are at the heart of this book.

作者简介： 布鲁诺·拉图尔（Bruno Latour），科学哲学家、科学社会学家。其著作包括《科学在行动：怎样在社会中跟随科学家和工程师》《我们从未现代过：对称性人类学论集》《自然的政治：如何把科学带入民主》等，在科学的文化与社会研究领域、科学哲学领域，乃至对整个后现代主义思潮，都产生了广泛的影响。 史蒂夫·伍尔加（Steve Woolgar），英国社会学家，在科学研究、科学知识社会学（SSK）和科学技术研究（STS）领域具有重要影响，著有《知识与反身性》《工作中的机器》等。

Georg Simmel's highly original take on the newly revived field of sociology succeeded in making the field far more sophisticated than it had been beforehand. He took insights from dialectical thought and Kantian epistemology to develop a 'form sociology' method that remains implicit in the field a century later. Forms include such patterns of interaction as inequality, secrecy,...(展开全部)