TY - BOOK AU - Velody,Irving AU - Williams,Robin TI - The Politics of constructionism SN - 0761950419 AV - HM26 .P63 1998 U1 - 302 21 PY - 1998/// CY - London, Thousand Oaks, Calif. PB - SAGE Publications KW - Sociology KW - Philosophy KW - Local KW - Social interaction KW - Social psychology KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - Methodology KW - Social sciences N1 - 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 ER -