Posted by Lauri Gröhn on July 19, 1999 at 17:55:42:

In Reply to: Re: Misconception about "social constructions". posted by P. Richard Hansen on July 19, 1999 at 16:57:22:

>Would you believe that there is actually a lot
>of people on this planet that does not believe
>in Newtons laws, and do have alternative >explanations.

This discussion of about knowledge, not about
prejudices, pseudosciences, magic etc.

>Besides that, Newtons laws or any socalled
>law of nature are all measured and explained
>by a set of metric systems like seconds and
>meters or feet.

So what?

>No one will be able to understand these laws >without the social construction of, and agrement >on, these systems meanings. Do you believe that >they came out of thin air?.

Standards of length, time, mass are not artificial "social constructions".

>Apart from that the relativity theory and chaos
>mathematics reveals that there is many things
>in nature that we do not understand fully.

Chaos mathemathics has not revealed much. And it not possible to prove that something is chaotic.
One can only prove that the model is chaotic.
Scientific work would not needed if we could
"undertand fully".

>The social world does not contain laws of
>nature.

Perhaps you meant that social sciences don't
have theories and law. I agree.

>It is built on fealings and meanings that
>cannot be classified or expressed by processes
>or schematics.

I disagree.

>Furthermore you cannot do experiments on the
> social world like your little amusement above.

I disagree. "Information Society" and globalisation are just huge experiments...

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Follow Ups:

• Re: Misconceptions about "social constructions". P. Richard Hansen 19:10:06 7/19/99 (11)
  • Re: Misconceptions about "social constructions". Reilly Atkinson 16:17:26 7/20/99 (9)
    • Re: Misconceptions about "social constructions". P. Richard Hansen 17:02:01 7/20/99 (8)
      • Re: Misconceptions about "social constructions". Reilly Atkinson 18:52:00 7/20/99 (7)
        • That book Lauri Gröhn 03:25:29 7/21/99 (1)
          • Re: That book P. Richard Hansen 07:20:47 7/21/99 (0)
        • Re: Misconceptions about "social constructions". P. Richard Hansen 20:17:20 7/20/99 (4)
          • Re: Misconceptions about "social constructions". Reilly Atkinson 19:19:14 7/21/99 (3)
            • Re: Misconceptions about "social constructions". P. Richard Hansen 21:29:50 7/21/99 (2)
              • Re: Misconceptions about "social constructions". Reilly Atkinson 13:07:21 7/22/99 (0)
              • Philosophy of sosiology is not philosophy of... Lauri Grohn 03:11:58 7/22/99 (0)
  • Let a thousand flowers bloom... and add to the diversity of perspectives needed for "living in interesting times." Martyn R Jones 23:38:44 7/19/99 (0)

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