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标题：Why They Know Not What They Do: A Social Constructionist Approach to the Explanatory Problem of False Consciousness
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作者：Lee Wilson
期刊名称：Journal of Social Ontology
印刷版ISSN：2196-9655
电子版ISSN：2196-9663
出版年度：2021
卷号：7
期号：1
页码：45-72
DOI：10.1515/jso-2020-0012
语种：English
出版社：Walter de Gruyter GmbH
摘要：False consciousness requires a general explanation for why, and how, oppressed individuals believe propositions against, as opposed to aligned with, their own well-being in virtue of their oppressed status. This involves four explanatory desiderata: belief acquisition, content prevalence, limitation, and systematicity. A social constructionist approach satisfies these by understanding the concept of false consciousness as regulating social research rather than as determining the exact mechanisms for all instances: the concept attunes us to a complex of mechanisms conducing oppressed individuals to mistake social understandings of themselves as natural self-understandings—the limits lie where these overlap, or are entirely absent.