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Social Construction as a Complex Attractor: The Multiple Dimensions of Entanglement, Innovation and Recurrence (Routledge Advances in Sociology) - Hardcover

Smith, John A.; Wilson, Anna

 
9781041041818: Social Construction as a Complex Attractor: The Multiple Dimensions of Entanglement, Innovation and Recurrence (Routledge Advances in Sociology)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1041041810 ISBN 13: 9781041041818
Verlag: Routledge, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

This book examines the dominance of social construction within sociology while shedding light on what social construction looks like in practice beyond the realm of sociological thought.

The idea that reality is socially constructed has dominated sociological thinking since Berger and Luckmann’s seminal work in the 1960s, but it has also been widely accepted across society and the media as the explanation of a wide range of phenomena including conceptions of beauty, the value of money, moral standards, religion, nationality and race. By analysing a selection of key twentieth and twenty-first century movements, Smith and Wilson show that the space of possible outcomes is always materially as well as socially constrained and identify path-dependent patterns of conservation and innovation.

Exploring questions of power, stratification, solidarity and freedom, it is an essential read for those who want to go beyond description and critique, and instead actively seek to understand why these are recurring patterns in human society, what kinds of alternatives might be possible, and what futures are open to us. As such it will appeal to scholars and students interested in complex approaches across a wide range of fields, in particular to those working within sociology, social theory, philosophy, anthropology and geography.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John A. Smith has taught at Goldsmiths College, University of London; Lancaster University; and Greenwich University. He is a sociologist and a painter trained at the Royal College of Art. He is interested in sociological theory, philosophy and visual culture, and has published in all of these areas. His most recent work was on Radical Ecology in the Face of the Anthropocene Extinction (2024), also with Anna Wilson.

Anna Wilson is a transdisciplinary academic who has researched and taught in physics and education in universities in the UK and Australia. She is currently based in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow, where her research explores learning in the context of complex predicaments including technologization, climate change and (un)sustainability.

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Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum
2026
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1041041810
ISBN 13 
9781041041818
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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Routledge
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