Cover -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I: FORMULATING CONSTRUCTIONISM -- 1 - Towards a Constructivist Genealogy of Social Constructivism -- 2 - Constructionist Dialogues and the Vicissitudes of the Political -- 3 - On Being More Literal about Construction -- PART II: THE LIMITS OFCONSTRUCTIONISM -- 4 - What Does the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge Explain? -- 5 - The Reflexive Politics of Constructivism Revisited -- 6 - Unconstructive -- 7 - The Limits of Social Constructionism -- PART III: APPLYING CONSTRUCTIONISM -- 8 - Relations, Communication and Power -- 9 - Social Constructionism and the New Technologies of Reproduction -- 10 - The Social Construction of Outliers -- 11 - Procedure, Reflexivity and Social Constructionism -- 12 - Social Constructionism as a Political Strategy -- PART IV: THE POLITICS OFCONSTRUCTIONISM -- 13 - Questions of Method -- 14 - Social Constructionist Political Theory -- 15 - Constructionism, Authority and the Ethical Life -- Index.