Social-constructionists
tend to hold that:
1-(X) need not have
existed, or need not be at all as it is.
(X), or (X) as it is at
present, is not determined by the nature
of things; it is not inevitable.
Very often, social-constructionists
go further, and urge that:
2- (X) is quite bad
as it is.
3- We would be much
better off if (X) were done away with,
or at least radically transformed.
Ian Hacking, (1999) The Social Construction Of What? p.6.
