Contemporary Social Constructionism: Key Themes - Couverture souple

Weinberg, Darin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1439909253 ISBN 13 : 9781439909256

Editeur : Temple University Press,U.S., 2015

Synopsis

In Contemporary Social Constructionism, Darin Weinberg provides a detailed, critical overview of the key themes of this school of thought, which explains how phenomena and ways of thinking develop in their social contexts. Weinberg traces the multiple roots of social constructionism, and shows how it has been used, critiqued, and refined within the social and human sciences.

Contemporary Social Constructionism illuminates how constructionist social science developed in relation to positivism, critical and hermeneutic philosophy, and feminism and then goes on to distinguish the concept from postmodernism and deconstructionism. In addition, Weinberg shows how social constructionists have contributed to our understanding of biology, the body, self-knowledge, and social problems.

The result is a contemporary statement of social constructionism that shores up its scientific veracity and demonstrates its analytic power, promise, and influence. The book concludes with a look toward the future of the concept and its use.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Darin Weinberg is a Reader in the Department of Sociology at Cambridge University and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He authored Of Others Inside: Insanity, Addiction, and Belonging in America (Temple), which won the Melvin Pollner Prize in Ethnomethodology.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1439909253
• ISBN 13: 9781439909256
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 214
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