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| ISBN: | 9781139424264
1139424262
9781139169202
1139169203
9781139422222
1139422227
9781139420174
1139420178
1139411799
9781139411790
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9781139418133
9781107024373
1107024374
9781107630161
1107630169
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-277) and index.
English.
Online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed January 15, 2019).
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| Summary: | "'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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| Other form: | Print version: Elder-Vass, Dave. Reality of social construction. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9781107024373
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| Standard no.: | 7217323
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