The Reality of Social Construction - Couverture souple

Elder-Vass, Dave

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1107630169 ISBN 13 : 9781107630161

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

'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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dave Elder-Vass is a Lecturer in Sociology at Loughborough University. He is the author of The Causal Power of Social Structures (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1107630169
• ISBN 13: 9781107630161
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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