The Politics of Constructionism

Introduction - Irving Velody and Robin Williams PART ONE: FORMULATING CONSTRUCTIONISM Towards a Constructivist Genealogy of Social Constructivism - Michael Lynch Constructionist Dialogues and the Vicissitudes of the Politics - Kenneth Gergen On Being More Literal about Construction - Ian Hacking PART TWO: THE LIMITS OF CONSTRUCTIONISM What Does the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge Explain? - Paul A Roth The Reflexive Politics of Constructivism Revisited - Steve Fuller Unconstructive - Wil Coleman and Wes Sharrock The Limits of Social Constructionism - Stephen Turner PART THREE: APPLYING CONSTRUCTIONISM Relations, Communication and Power - Ian Burkitt Social Constructionism and the New Technologies of Reproduction - Erica Haimes and Robin Williams The Social Construction of Outliers - Sandy Lovie and Pat Lovie Procedure, Reflexivity and Social Constructionism - Philip Manning Social Constructionism as a Political Strategy - Tom Shakespeare PART FOUR: THE POLITICS OF CONSTRUCTIONISM Questions of Method - Mitchell Dean Social Constructionist Political Theory - Craig Mackenzie Constructionism, Authority and the Ethical Life - Thomas Osborne