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The reality of social construction /
"'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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "'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 these ways of thinking are entirely compatible with each other. This book seeks to transform prevailing understandings of the relationship between realism and constructionism. It offers a thorough ontological analysis of the phenomena of language, discourse, culture, and knowledge, and shows how this justifies a realist version of social constructionism. In doing so, however, it also develops an analysis of these phenomena that is significant in its own right."--Provided by publisher |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 283 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-277) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139424264 1139424262 9781139169202 1139169203 9781139422222 1139422227 9781139420174 1139420178 1139411799 9781139411790 1107232007 9781107232006 9786613660121 6613660124 1139423193 9781139423199 1139418130 9781139418133 |