Statistics in Britain 1865-1930: The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge. By Donald MacKenzie. Edinburgh University Press (Distributed in the U.S. by Columbia University Press), 1981. 306 pp. $25.00

Social Forces ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 1124-1125
Author(s):  
N. C. Mullins
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
The Social ◽  
The U.S

Do New Media Support New Policy Narratives? The Social Construction of the U.S.-Mexico Border on YouTube

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 497-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna L. Lybecker ◽  
Mark K. McBeth ◽  
Maria A. Husmann ◽  
Nicholas Pelikan
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
New Media ◽  
The Social ◽  
Policy Narratives ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
The U.S

Statistics in Britain 1865-1930: The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge.

Social Forces ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 1124
Author(s):  
Nicholas C. Mullins ◽  
Donald MacKenzie
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Constructing Worlds: Reflections on Science, Technology and Democracy (and a Plea for Bold Modesty)

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wiebe Bijker
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Construction Work ◽  
Social Construction Of Technology ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Alternative Facts

Can STS offer a response to “alternative facts” without falling back into naive positivism? Can STS help to make science accountable to society and make it work—make it function in our democracies and let it produce scientific knowledge? In his valedictory lecture, Wiebe Bijker looks back upon three decades of STS research in general, and upon engaging STS with questions of democratization and development in particular. He starts from the question how to study technological cultures and ends with the question how to construct them. The argument moves from the social construction of technology to constructing socio-technical worlds. Finally, when trying to understand this construction work, the analysis zooms in on the constructing worlds: on the institutions in which this construction work takes place. 

The Authenticity Paradox: Why the Returns to Authenticity on Audience Appeal Decrease in Popularity and Iconicity

2020 ◽  
pp. 014920632095041
Author(s):  
J. Cameron Verhaal ◽  
Stanislav D. Dobrev
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Craft Beer ◽  
Audience Appeal ◽  
The Social ◽  
The U.S

A great deal of research has argued for authenticity as a key firm-level attribute and source of competitive advantage. But we know very little about the boundary conditions related to organizational authenticity. In order to address this, we develop a theory of the social construction of authenticity, how it affects the appeal of a producer’s offerings, and how the market success of these offerings affects the returns to authenticity. We propose that there are two mechanisms, in addition to authenticity, that can drive audience appeal: popularity and iconicity. But increases in both popularity and iconicity also challenge some of the underlying tenets of what the audience considers authentic, namely, intrinsic motivation and the pursuit of social, rather than economic, value. The authenticity paradox, then, is that even as the appeal of authentic offerings increases, their popularity and iconicity diminish the returns to authenticity. We find support for these ideas in the context of the U.S. market for craft beer and discuss the implications of our theory for authenticity research and for the broader market and social dynamics in craft industries.

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