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I n this chapter, we use certain moments and tensions in science and technology studies to explore constructionism in this interdisciplinary field. I Our starting point is the publication of Laboratory Life (1979) by Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar. They subtitled this seminal monograph in the ethnography of science The Social Construction ofScientific Facts. They removed the word social from the subtitle for the 1986 edition. We look at this decision in the light ofcertain developments sometimes referred to as" the death of the social" and of a historical Anglo-American resistance to a robust understanding and application of the concept social.