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Ep. 227: What Is Social Construction? (Hacking, Berger) (Part Two)

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How to Claim That Something Is Socially Constructive

Hackers: Does he think that claiming that something is socially constructive actually just a performative act? And the way you just described it with gender at least, like, no, there's actually something to investigate. Hacking: You could try to do some science, do cross-cultural comparisons, and try to untangle these things to the extent that it is ambiguous. It's always going to be ambiguous.

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