Social Construction

Philosophy Compass 10 (12):884-892 (2015)
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What is social construction? This essay offers a survey of the various ways in which something could be socially constructed and then addresses briefly the questions whether social constructionism involves an untenable anti-realism and what, if anything, unifies all social construction claims

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10.1111/phc3.12265

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The social construction of what?Ian Hacking - 1999 - Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

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