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Sage and Vitry introduce this collection by first elaborating how construction has been historically circumscribed as an object of knowledge serving technical, managerial, physical and financial means and ends; thus marginalized as an object for social sciences and humanities scholarship. They then critically interrogate the extent to which the ‘social turn’ in Anglophone construction management research offers a challenge to this situation. Turning then to studies of the built environment in human geography, sociology and history, they review the increasing, if still marginal and fragmented, receptivity to considering the places, people and politics of building construction within those disciplines. Sage and Vitry conclude by reflecting back on aims of the volume to propose a more integrated, interdisciplinary, social studies of building construction.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    To avoid excessive repetition across this introduction, we interchangeably use the terms ‘building construction’ as well as ‘building’ (as a verb), ‘building work’ and ‘construction’ to refer not only to those rather singular activities of building implementation, as set out in industrial classifications (see ISIC 2017b; UKSIC 2017), but also reflect upon how those activities are socially organized in multiple, changing, ways as an object of knowledge (Foucault 2004).

  2. 2.

    The non-human/human binary can be derived from the architecture/construction opposition in two ways. First, in some accounts building labour is framed as non-human, as in Alberti’s (1988) treatment of the building trades as a passive ‘tool’ of the architect. This dehumanization resembles recent sociologies (e.g. Thiel 2013) where those working in building trades are described by themselves and colleagues as ‘tools’. Second, the Cartesian ‘ontological separation of mind and matter reenforces a binary distinction between the rational thoughts of a subject and the predictable behaviour of material bodies’ (Roberts 2012, p. 2514).

  3. 3.

    While architecture is certainly not free from gendered discrimination (Powell and Sang 2015), it is often less male dominated; for example, in the UK 25% of architects are female, with significant recent increases (Waite 2017), while only 1% of workers on site are women (UCATT 2017).

  4. 4.

    Dyos (1973, p. 179) explains this decision as owing to the lack of cultural and social historical sources rather than as a reflection of his own lack of interest in the lives of builders. For histories of building, see, e.g., Clarke (1992), Jackson (1987), and Price (1980).

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Sage, D.J., Vitry, C. (2018). Introduction: Societies under Construction. In: Sage, D., Vitry, C. (eds) Societies under Construction. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73996-0_1

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