Hacking's reconciliation: putting the biological and sociological together in the explanation of mental illness

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The integration of biological and sociological approaches to mental illness is discussed, with a focus on the views of Ian Hacking. Topics include social construction versus the medical model, the looping effect of classification of people, transient mental illnesses, stable disorders, Hacking's semantic approach to reconciliation between constructionist and biological perspectives, and the social mind/brain.

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Erotetic contextualism, data-generating procedures, and sociological explanations of social mobility

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The ability of the erotetic model of explanation to discriminate significant from spurious explanation is criticized. Data-generating procedures of measuring occupational status and social mobility affect different aspects of one explanation, and these findings are used to meet objections to the erotetic model.

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On the limits of sociological theory

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Problems with sociological theory are discussed, with a focus on attempts to account for the existence of the social order and to explain how it functions. Topics include Comte's sociology, weak theories, strong theories, and retreats from the substantive hunch.

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