Fracchia and Burkett on Tailism and the Dialectic

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Feenberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Historical Materialism ◽  
Class Consciousness ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Construction Of Nature

This commentary addresses criticism of Lukács’s early book Tailism and the Dialectic: A Defence of History and Class Consciousness. Two critiques published in Historical Materialism are analysed and alternative interpretations of Lukács’s theory developed. The commentary focuses on Lukács’s theories of class consciousness and his ideas on the social construction of nature.

Socially Constructing Pacific Salmon

1997 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rik Scarce
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Pacific Salmon ◽  
General Question ◽  
Physical Processes ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Construction Of Nature ◽  
Historical Comparative

AbstractWhat does "nature" mean? This general question, central to the social construction of nature, is addressed here by examining one of nature's particulars, Pacific salmon, and by looking at how one group of people, salmon biologists, imbue the fish with meaning. Based upon historical, comparative, and qualitative data, it appears that nature is socially constructed through both cognitive and physical processes. "Salmon"- and indirectly nature - emerges not as a monolithic, timeless, certain entity, but rather as one that is manipulable, fleeting, and the product of a variety of social relations. In particular, public policy and economics appear to have profoundly influenced salmon biologists' cognitive and physical constructions of salmon.

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