[PDF] Social Construction Of The Past eBook

Author : George C. Bond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,47 MB
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1134680058

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First published in 1994. Anthropological and archaeological enquiry are shaped by the historical times in which they are formulated. This collection of essays examines how mainstream scholarship constructs the past - in the case of anthropologists, usually the past of other peoples. By creating another people's cultural history, scholars appropriate it and turn it into a form of domination by one group over another. Mainstream scholarship has often failed to recognize the intellectual and scholarly contribution of subjugated peoples . This volume looks at the way 'postcolonial' scholars are redefining the nature of scholarship, and themselves, in order to develop a more egalitarian discourse. Social Constructions of the Past examines labour, race and gender and its relationship to power and class. It includes essays on a broad range of topics, from the role of intellectuals in restructuring a non-apartheid South Africa, to Haitian working-class women using sexuality to resist domination.

Author : Peter L. Berger
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 26,95 MB
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1453215468

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A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced “a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally” (George Simpson, American Sociological Review). In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and Luckmann go beyond intellectual history and focus on commonsense, everyday knowledge—the proverbs, morals, values, and beliefs shared among ordinary people. When first published in 1966, this systematic, theoretical treatise introduced the term social construction,effectively creating a new thought and transforming Western philosophy.

Author : Franke Wilmer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 19,37 MB
Release : 2004-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1135956219

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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, rather than treating it as a given, an unquestionable variable. Combining detailed analysis with a close reading of historical narratives, documentary evidence, and first-hand interviews conducted in the former Yugoslavia, Wilmer sheds new light on how ethnic identity is constructed, and what that means for the future of peace and sovereignty throughout the world.

Author : Dave Elder-Vass
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 15,35 MB
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107024374

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Argues that versions of realist and social constructionist ways of thinking about the social world are compatible with each other.

Author : Wiebe E. Bijker
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 14,55 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262521376

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"The impact of technology on society is clear and unmistakeable. The influence of society on technology is more subtle. The 13 essays in this book have been written by a diverse group of scholars united by a common interest in creating a new field - the sociology of technology. They draw on a wide array of case studies - from cooking stoves to missile systems, from 15th-century Portugal to today's Al labs - to outline an original research program based on a synthesis of ideas from the social studies of science and the history of technology. Together they affirm the need for a study of technology that gives equal weight to technical, social, economic, and political questions"--Back cover.

Author : Karen Sternheimer
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 17,44 MB
Release : 2020-04-15
Category :
ISBN : 9780393419481

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Innovative readings and blog posts show how sociology can help us understand everyday life.

Author : Ian Hacking
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,23 MB
Release : 1999-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674812000

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Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Ian Hacking’s book explores an array of examples to reveal the deep issues underlying contentious accounts of reality—especially regarding the status of the natural sciences.

Author : Philip E. Steinberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,92 MB
Release : 2001-10-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521010573

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This 2001 book discusses the changing uses, regulations and representation of the sea from 1450 to now.

Author : Elizabeth Tonkin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 21,86 MB
Release : 1995-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 131658352X

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This study looks at how oral histories are constructed and how they should be interpreted, and argues for a deeper understanding of their oral and social characteristics. Oral accounts of past events are also guides to the future, as well as being social activities in which tellers claim authority to speak to particular audiences. Like written history and literature, orality has its shaping genres and aesthetic conventions and, likewise, has to be interpreted through them. The argument is illustrated through a wide range of examples of memory, narration and oral tradition, including many from Europe and the Americas, and with a particular focus on oral histories from the Jlao Kru of Liberia, with whom Elizabeth Tonkin has carried out extensive research. Tonkin also draws on and integrates the insights of a range of other disciplines, such as literary criticism, linguistics, history, psychology, and communication and cultural studies.

Author : John R. Searle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 12,84 MB
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1439108366

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This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a ‘five-pound note’ with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch. In The Construction of Social Reality, eminent philosopher John Searle examines the structure of social reality (or those portions of the world that are facts only by human agreement, such as money, marriage, property, and government), and contrasts it to a brute reality that is independent of human agreement. Searle shows that brute reality provides the indisputable foundation for all social reality, and that social reality, while very real, is maintained by nothing more than custom and habit.