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On the real workings of social construction

Dave Elder-Vass: The reality of social construction: Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012, 296pp, $103.00 HB, $32.99 PB

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Henderson, D. On the real workings of social construction. Metascience 24, 271–274 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-014-9961-0

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