social constructionism

is the idea not that there is bias in science (of course there is) and not that some people have agendas (of course they do) but that what counts as 'truth' and what counts as 'worthy of knowing' is at every level a construction.

As Haraway (1991: 186) explains, the goal of this perspective is to find 'a way to go beyond showing bias in science (that proved too easy anyway), and beyond separating the good scientific sheep from the bad goats of bias and misuse.' Instead, social constructionist seek to deconstruct 'the truth claims of . . . science by showing the radical historical specificity, and so contestability, of every layer of the onion of scientific . . . constructions' (186).

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social constructionism