1st Edition
Social Construction as a Complex Attractor The Multiple Dimensions of Entanglement, Innovation and Recurrence
Introduction
1. Social construction in sociology: The 19th- and 20th-century legacy
2. Economic and psychological perspectives on social construction: America, the Soviet Union and Europe after World War I
3. Post World War II: Containing communism and fascism; promoting liberty, democracy and the free market
4. Ecological-topographical and emotional-cognitive perspectives
5. 21st-century developments
6. Conclusions
Biography
John A. Smith has taught at Goldsmiths College, University of London; Lancaster University; and Greenwich University. He is a sociologist and a painter trained at the Royal College of Art. He is interested in sociological theory, philosophy and visual culture, and has published in all of these areas. His most recent work was Radical Ecology in the Face of the Anthropocene Extinction (2024), also with Anna Wilson.
Anna Wilson is a transdisciplinary academic who has researched and taught in physics and education in universities in the UK and Australia. She is currently based in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow, where her research explores learning in the context of complex predicaments including technologization, climate change and (un)sustainability.
