Realities and Relationships - Soundings in Social Construction (Paperback, Revised)

Recent attempts to challenge the primacy of reason - and its realization in foundationalist accounts of knowledge and cognitive formulations of human action - have focused on processes of discourse. Drawing from social and literary accounts of discourse Gergen considers these challenges to empiricism under the banner of "social construction". His aim is to outline the major elements of a social constructionist perspective, to illustrate its potential, and to initiate debate on the future of constructionist pursuits in the human sciences generally and psychology in particular. Realities and Relationships not only integrates the many voices of anti-empiricist criticism, it positions us to consider alternative conceptions of knowledge, new vistas for human science, and transformations in cultural practice.

General

Imprint:	Harvard University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 1997
First published:	September 1997
Authors:	Kenneth J. Gergen
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	368
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-674-74931-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > General
LSN:	0-674-74931-6
Barcode:	9780674749313

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