The Social Construction of What?

Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Is

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What is management and how do the people who become managers take on a managerial identity? How does text inform the manager's identity? From cultural studies w

This book offers new ways of thinking about corruption by examining the two distinct ways in which policy approaches and discourse on corruption developed in th

The intent behind this book is to provide grist for the mill for research students and other interested readers. Chapter one, by author Allan Savage, presents a

A historical exploration of scientific disputes on the causation of so-called ‘prion diseases’, this fascinating book covers diseases including Scrapie, Cre

In light of the recent declassification of state papers from Western, Soviet, and Chinese archives, this intriguing book presents a re-examination of the Korean

This book situates the social construction of crime and criminal behaviour within the philosophical context of phenomenology and explores how these construction

The Social Construction of Man, the State, and War is the fist book on conflict in the former Yugoslavia to look seriously at the issue of ethnic identity, rath

An anniversary edition of an influential book that introduced a groundbreaking approach to the study of science, technology, and society. This pioneering book,