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Social Construction

2012
Abstract This chapter develops an account of social construction and defends a broad critical social realism according to which certain entities and kinds are socially constructed; however, the claim that they are socially constructed, on this account, provides no basis for concluding that they are anything less than fully real.
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Terrorism: Social capital, social construction, and constructive society?

Public Relations Inquiry, 2014
Whether 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 Construction

Philosophy Compass, 2015
Abstract What is social construction? This essay offers a survey of the various ways in which something could be socially constructed and then addresses briefly the questions whether social constructionism involves an untenable anti‐realism and what, if anything, unifies all social construction claims.
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Alcoholism: A Social Construct

Journal of Drug Issues, 1982
Alcoholism as a specific disease was discovered about 200 years ago in North America. The disease is thought to be characterized by loss of control over drinking and by certain “symptoms,” supposed to occur in a typical order during the “natural” history of the disease. The basic assumptions of the disease model are, however, untenable.
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Social construction of episiotomy

Journal of Clinical Nursing, 1998
This article explores the meaning of episiotomy. A review of the literature examines the definition, procedure, perceptions and outcomes of episiotomy to create a better understanding for those using or experiencing its practice. The article highlights that episiotomy means more than just a cut in the perineum.
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Social Constructions of Hypnosis

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 1992
Both clinical and experimental views of hypnosis are social constructions that reflect the biases and interests of practitioners and scientists. Each perspective offers useful metaphors for hypnosis. Underlying clinical uses of the term hypnosis are states of mind associated with imaginative reverie and automatic behavior based on procedural knowledge.
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Social constructions

2018
Abstract Sociology could be described as the study of social structures and social institutions, and sociological work is often divided into topics such as class structure, the family, crime and deviance, and religion. But how is sociology distinctive? ‘Social constructions’ examines what constitutes sociology.
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Social Construction and Integration

Journal of European Public Policy, 1999
Social 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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What's Social About Social Construction?

Social Studies of Science, 2001
With The Social Construction of What?, Ian Hacking aims to cool down the overheated debates around social constructionism (the 'science wars') by clarifying just what the phrase 'social construction' can be properly understood to mean. The book is a collection of previously published essays and lectures on a variety of topics, united not by a common ...
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Social determinants of health and US cancer screening interventions: A systematic review

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2023
Ariella R Korn
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