The Social Construction of Housing Facts∗

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Abstract
The image of science as a detached pursuit of objective truth has come under increasing attack in recent years, and there are now a substantial number of studies of a range of natural sciences which indicate how their findings are socially constructed. In this paper a similar analysis is applied to housing studies, to show how the socially constructed nature of the natural sciences is not unique but also applies to housing studies. The discussion is in three parts: the construction of the data which constitute housing facts; their use to assemble concepts and themes; the refraction of these “facts” and concepts through the research power structure to create a socially constructed pattern of accepted truths and their unaccepted counterparts.

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