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Reality of social construction

"'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...

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Príomhúdar: Elder-Vass, Dave
Formáid: Printed Book
Foilsithe: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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