11 The Social Construction of Uncertainty in Healthcare Delivery

2006 ◽  
pp. 109-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Begun ◽  
Amer A. Kaissi
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
The Social

Critical Social Theory as a Means of Analysis for Caring in Nursing

2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Sumner
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Delivery System ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Critical Social Theory ◽  
Healthcare Delivery System ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
The Social ◽  
Critical Social

Critical social theory (CST) is offered as a means to explore the social construction of the patient-nurse relationship within the power constraints of the healthcare delivery system. It is a tool that probes for gaps, silences, and false construction in discourse within this relationship in order to identify excluded or marginalized voices. It provides an opportunity to question historical influences, confront unquestioned norms and values and their relevance in today’s nursing practice. Power is examined as knowledge and as moral, and is explored within the patient-nurse hierarchy. As a method, CST facilitates understanding of caring in nursing.

The Social Construction of Our Bodies

1992 ◽  
Vol 37 (11) ◽  
pp. 1186-1186
Author(s):  
Garth J. O. Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
The Social

The Social Construction of a Perfect Market: The Strawberry Auction at Fontaines-en-Sologne

2010 ◽  
pp. 73-89
Author(s):  
M.-F. Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Invisible Hand ◽  
The Social ◽  
Per Se

The article examines social conditions and mechanisms of the emergence in 1982 of a «Dutch» strawberry auction in Fontaines-en-Sologne, France. Empirical study of this case shows that perfect market does not arise per se due to an «invisible hand». It is a social construction, which could only be put into effect by a hard struggle between stakeholders and large investments of different forms of capital. Ordinary practices of the market dont differ from the predictions of economic theory, which is explained by the fact that economic theory served as a frame of reference for the designers of the auction. Technological and spatial organization as well as principal rules of trade was elaborated in line with economic views of perfect market resulting in the correspondence between theory and reality.

Negotiating Trouble: The Social Construction and Management of Trouble in a College Psychiatric Context

1978 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 461-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merton J. Kahne ◽  
Charlotte Green Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
The Social
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