Military procurement as rational myth: Notes on the social construction of weapons proliferation

1992 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark C. Suchman ◽  
Dana P. Eyre
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Weapons Proliferation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Military Procurement

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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