Dave Elder-Vass

Reality of Social Construction (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139411790
• Artikelnr.: 53014207

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Social Ontology: 1. Introduction
2. Norm circles
Part II. Culture: 3. Culture and rules
4. Institutional reality
Part III. Language: 5. Signification
6. Langue and parole
7. Categories, essences and sexes
Part IV. Discourse: 8. Discourse
9. Cultures and classes
10. Subjects
Part V. Knowledge: 11. Knowledge
12. Reality
13. Conclusion.