Social Construction in Context

Name: Social Construction in Context
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ISBN: 9780761965459

ISBN-10: 0761965459

ISBN-13: 9780761965459

Edition: 2001

Authors: Kenneth J. Gergen

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This latest book by one the world's leading protagonists in the field will be welcomed not just by psychologists but by students, academics and professionals interested in social constructionism across a wide range of subjects. Social Construction in Context explores the potentials of social constructionist theory when placed in diverse intellectual and practical contexts. It demonstrates the achievements of social constructionism, and what it can now offer various fields of inquiry, both academic, professional and applied, given the proliferation of the theory across the social sciences and humanities. First order issues of concern within the academic world, objectivity, truth, power and…

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List price: $73.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Limited
Publication date: 5/23/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English

Kenneth J. Gergen is Mustin Professor of Psychology at Swarthmore college, USA.CONTRIBUTORS' AFFILIATIONS OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA:Lisa Warhus University of Aarhus




Social Construction and the Human Sciences


Constructionism and Realism


A Necessary Collision?


The Place of the Psyche in a Constructed World


The Limits of Pure Critique


Who Speaks and Who Responds in the Human Sciences?


History and Psychology


Conflict and Communion



Social Construction and Societal Practice


Therapy as Social Construction


Social Construction with Pedagogical Practice


Power in a Relational Frame


The Ethical Challenge of Global Organization


Organizational Science in a Postmodern Context



Social Construction and Cultural Context


From Identity to Relational Politics


Technology, Self and the Moral Project