The Politics of Constructionism

Introduction/PART ONE: FORMULATING CONSTRUCTIONISM/Towards a Constructivist Genealogy of Social Constructivism/Constructionist Dialogues and the Vicissitudes of the Politics/On Being More Literal about Construction/PART TWO: THE LIMITS OF CONSTRUCTIONISM/What Does the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge Explain? /The Reflexive Politics of Constructivism Revisited/Unconstructive/The Limits of Social Constructionism/PART THREE: APPLYING CONSTRUCTIONISM/Relations Communication and Power/Social Constructionism and the New Technologies of Reproduction/The Social Construction of Outliers/Procedure Reflexivity and Social Constructionism/Social Constructionism as a Political Strategy/PART FOUR: THE POLITICS OF CONSTRUCTIONISM/Questions of Method/Social Constructionist Political Theory/Constructionism Authority and the Ethical Life