The Social Construction of What? by Ian Hacking
Published 1999 · 73,425 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Social Construction of What? to read?
The Social Construction of What? scores 68 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 68 out of 100
- Analytic-philosophy and science-studies vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 65 out of 100
- Clear, wry, carefully built sentences.
- Abstraction: 82 out of 100
- An argument about what a concept is doing.
- Information density: 72 out of 100
- Many worked cases across several fields.
How The Social Construction of What? is regarded
The Social Construction of What? holds a literary regard score of 68 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.