The Politics of constructionism edited by Irving Velody and Robin Williams. - London Thousand Oaks, Calif. SAGE Publications 1998. - ix, 241 p. ill. 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Irving Velody and Robin Williams -- Towards a constructivist genealogy of social constructivism / Michael Lynch -- Constructionist dialogues and the vicissitudes of the political / Kenneth J. Gergen -- On being more literal about construction / Ian Hacking -- What does the sociology of scientific knowledge explain? / Paul A. Roth -- The reflexive politics of constructivism revisited / Steve Fuller -- Unconstructive / Wil Coleman and Wes Sharrock -- The limits of social constructionism / Stephen Turner -- Relations, communication and power / Ian Burkitt -- Social constructionism and the new technologies of reproduction / Erica Haimes and Robin Williams -- The social construction of outliers / Sandy Lovie and Pat Lovie -- Procedure, reflexivity and social constructionism / Philip Manning -- Social constructionism as a political strategy / Tom Shakespeare -- Questions of method / Mitchell Dean -- Social constructionist political theory / Craig Mackenzie -- Constructionism, authority and the ethical life / Thomas Osborne.

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Sociology--Philosophy.
Social interaction
Social psychology
Knowledge, Theory of
Sociology--Methodology.
Social sciences--Methodology.
Social sciences--Philosophy.

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