@article{ref1,
title="A Field Guide to Social Construction",
journal="Philosophy compass",
year="2007",
author="Mallon, Ron",
volume="2",
number="1",
pages="93-108",
abstract="A wide range of discussions throughout the humanities and social sciences include claims that various phenomena are “socially constructed.” Many academics associate “social constructionism” with the so-called “science wars” in which social constructionism is identified with some sort of radical anti-realism about reality in general, or the findings of science in particular. But the move to radical anti-realism is only one way to develop the central idea of constructionism – that human decision and human culture exert profound and often unnoticed influence – and much of this work remains interesting and provocative within a broadly naturalist and realist framework. Here the author reviews and explores a variety of constructionist claims, including the plausible suggestion that social constructionist hypotheses have special purchase in discussions of human kinds.<p />",
language="",
issn="1747-9991",
doi="10.1111/j.1747-9991.2006.00051.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-9991.2006.00051.x"
}