An invitation to social construction. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kenneth J. Gergen.
• Authors: Gergen, Kenneth J
• Contents: CHAPTER 1: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION - FROM “WHAT IS” TO “WHAT COULD BE”; Together We Construct our Worlds; The Social Origins of the Real and the Good; Grounding Dialogues on Social Construction; From Deconstruction to Reconstruction; Reflective Pragmatism: The Working Vocabularies of the World; CHAPTER 2: CONSTRUCTING THE REAL AND THE GOOD; The Language We Live By; Everyday Conversation: The Power of the Unremarkable; Institutional Realities: Foucault on Power; Identity Politics: To Be or Not To Be; CHAPTER 3: HORIZONS OF HUMAN ENQUIRY; From Empiricism to Constructionism; Research Traditions in Transformation; Discourse Study: Exploring Constructed Worlds; Imagination in Action: Qualitative Enquiry; CHAPTER 4: THE RELATIONAL SELF; Generative Theory; Individualism: Separation and its Discontents; Self as Relationship: First Steps; Self as Relationship: The Emerging Vision; Mind as Relational Action; Multi-Being: What Shall We Become Together?; CHAPTER 5: DIALOGUE - CONFLICT AND TRANSFORMATION; Exploring Dialogue: Key Concepts; Dialogue and Difference; Toward Transformative Dialogue; CHAPTER 6: EDUCATION AS RELATIONAL PROCESS; Knowledge as Socially Constructed; Education as Relational Process; The Challenge of Student Evaluation; CHAPTER 7: THE HELPING PROFESSIONS - CO-CONSTRUCTION IN ACTION; Therapy as Social Construction; Collaborative Means to Human Well-being; Meaning and Medicine; CHAPTER 8: MAKING MEANING IN ORGANIZATIONS; Organizing Through Language; Relational Organizing: Key to the Future; The Organization as System; CHAPTER 9: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION IN QUESTION; Realism: “But there is a World Out There!”; The Challenge of Moral Relativism; Missing Ingredients: The Body and Power; The Challenge of Moral Relativism;
• Edition: Third edition
• Publisher Details: London : SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Subjects: 300.1; Social psychology; Social problems; Discourse analysis; Subjectivity; Social interaction; Discourse analysis; Social interaction; Social problems; Social psychology; Subjectivity; Samhällsvetenskap -- teori, filosofi; Socialpsykologi; Konstruktivism (filosofi)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781473927704; 1473927706
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