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Jane Ogden

Health and the Construction of the Individual

Jane Ogden

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English
Routledge
26 May 2023
Society & culture: general; Sociology; Psychological theory & schools of thought; Social, group or collective psychology; Health psychology; Medical sociology
Series: Psychology Revivals
How do social scientists create facts? What strategies do they use to construct knowledge? How does social science make sense of the individual? Critical studies of both medical and scientific knowledge have been conducted but social science knowledge remains relatively unquestioned.

Addressing this question, Health and the Construction of the Individual, originally published in 2002, is a social study of social science. Jane Ogden focuses particularly on constructions of the individual in health-related psychology and sociology. She explores how social science texts construct social science facts using the strategies of theory, methodology, measurement, and rhetorical boundaries and argues that the individual is not only constructed through the dissemination of social science knowledge but through the mechanics of its production. The results provide a unique insight into the transformation of the individual as an ever-changing self, from both a historical and social constructionist perspective.

This title will make fascinating reading for health psychologists, medical sociologists, social constructionists and all students and researchers interested in gaining a greater understanding of the premises underlying social science.
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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
Weight:   360g
ISBN:   9781032546094
ISBN 10:   1032546093
Series:   Psychology Revivals
Pages:   136
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
List of Illustrations. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction: Towards a Social Study of Social Science 2. Theory as Data: The Example of Health and Risk 3. Methodology as Data: The Example of Sex Research 4. Measurement as Data: The Example of Health Status 5. The Rhetorical Challenge to Biomedicine 6. Defining the Individual/Social Boundary 7. Who is the Late Twentieth-Century Individual? The Example of Diet 8. Health and the Construction of the Individual: Concluding Remarks. References. Index.

Jane Ogden

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