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The social construction of Personhood
Social Thought, 1989The current abortion controversy revolves around the opposing issues of a woman's self‐determination vs. the right of a fetus to be born. The thesis of this paper is that whether a fetus is aborted or delivered depends to a great degree on how social groups and individuals construct its nature. If the fetus is “constructed” as a person it will be born;
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The Social Construction of Validity
Qualitative Inquiry, 1995Validation of qualitative research is here discussed in relation to postmodern conceptions of knowledge. A modernist notion of true knowledge as a mirror of reality is replaced by a postmodern understanding of knowledge as a social construction. Of the common psychometric concepts of validity, predictive validity is related to a modernist correspon ...
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Social Construction and Integration
Journal of European Public Policy, 1999Social construction, which has made key contributions to contemporary international relations (IR) and institutional theorizing, has yet to make significant in-roads among scholars of integration. This is unfortunate, for it has privileged methodological individualism in the study of European institutions - either in its strict (rational choice ...
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Social Construction of Knowledge
1998The term “social construction of knowledge” is introduced and a system is proposed that facilitates this process. Knowledge is based on information that may have to be retrieved from vast, dynamic and unknown information spaces. The goal of knowledge construction may be vague, such that the tasks to achieve it evolve incrementally as information is ...
Angi Voß, Thomas Kreifelts
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Terrorism: Social capital, social construction, and constructive society?
Public Relations Inquiry, 2014Whether an establishment elite or a group countering the ideology and power of such an elite, terrorists engage in public relations activities aimed to acquire and apply social capital in the battle to manage issues and influence the trajectory of change (or in some cases to resist change).
Robert L Heath, Damion Waymer
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Social Security: The Social Construction of a Crisis
The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly. Health and Society, 19831981 by the President, politicians of various persuasions, neoconservative economists, and a number of policy analysts. The mass media repeated the crisis designation over and over again. The public, including millions of elderly, became concerned, indeed alarmed. Many young adults felt that they would pay into, but never benefit from, Social Security.
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Translation in the "reassembly" mechanism of social constructs and the "social" construct
Вестник Вятского государственного университета, 2020В условиях расширения коммуникативного пространства человека благодаря глобальной сети перевод вплетается в частную жизнь субъекта во многих аспектах. Кроме прикладного характера перевода (перевода текста с одного языка на другой), проявляются его социальные функции: перевод расширяет доступный мир человека, позволяет размывать границы между носителями
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The social construction of the human brain
American Journal of Psychiatry, 1995The purpose of this article is to review the development of concepts about the contribution of nature and nurture to brain structure and mental function, and to derive the implications of these changing concepts for clinical practice.The literature of the past five decades, as refracted by the author's personal experience in academic psychiatry during ...
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History of the Human Sciences, 1994
Introducing a special section of four papers to be presented at the Conference 'Constructing the Social', which will be held at the University of Durham on 7-8 April 1994.
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Introducing a special section of four papers to be presented at the Conference 'Constructing the Social', which will be held at the University of Durham on 7-8 April 1994.
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Social Agony and Agonising Social Constructions
2017The sociologist Iain Wilkinson’s contribution explores the precise role of ‘the social’ in the construction of fatigue syndromes, and the ways in which embodied experiences of social life may become manifest both in physical symptoms and in theoretical discourses. He argues that although there is now a renewed recognition of the social determination of
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