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By Robert T. Michael, John H. Gagnon, Edward O. Laumann, and Gina Kolata. 300 pp. Boston, Little, Brown, 1994. $22.95. ISBN 0-316-07524-8.

It is a measure of both the prudery and the prurience of our times that this book derives from a survey that evaded the S word and was named the National Health and Social Life Survey. Names are influential. They are shaped by one's assumptions and in turn shape one's formulations. In Sex in America the conceptual assumption is explicit: it is the doctrine of social or sociological determinism — namely, that human sexual behavior is socially scripted. Thus, although the authors do not use the term social constructionism, that is the social-science doctrine to which they adhere. Accordingly, Sex . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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