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Social Constructionist Arguments in Harding's Science and Social Inequality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Alison Wylie
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Abstract

Harding's aim in Science and Social Inequality is to integrate the insights generated by diverse critiques of conventional ideals of truth, value freedom, and unity in science, and to chart a way forward for the sciences and for science studies. Wylie assesses this synthesis as a genre of social constructionist argument and illustrates its implications for questions of epistemic warrant with reference to transformative research on gender-based discrimination in the workplace environment.

Type
Symposium Sandra Harding's Science and Social Inequality: Feminist and Postcolonial Issues
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Hypatia , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , December 2008 , pp. 201 - 211
Copyright
Copyright © 2008 by Hypatia, Inc.

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