Provides a critical overview of the key themes of this school of thought, which explains how phenomena and ways of thinking develop in their social contexts. This book traces the multiple roots of social constructionism, and shows how it has been used, critiqued, and refined within the social and human sciences.
Darin Weinberg is a Reader in the Department of Sociology at Cambridge University and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He authored Of Others Inside: Insanity, Addiction, and Belonging in America (Temple), which won the Melvin Pollner Prize in Ethnomethodology.
