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The Discursive Social Psychology of Evidence - Symbolic Construction of Reality (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990)
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The Discursive Social Psychology of Evidence - Symbolic Construction of Reality (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990)
Series: Cognition and Language: A Series in Psycholinguistics
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Having spent more than thirty years in the laboratory studying
human behavior under preformatted, controlled conditions, I found
myself dissatisfied with my work. It is not that my work produced
no new findings on human conduct, or that working almost
exclusively with college students gave me little information on
other groups of people, but that the study of human beings in the
laboratory told me little about the people themselves. Having been
born in Europe, socialized in the Middle East, and educated in the
United States, I had entered the profession of psychology in order
to better understand different people's behavior. What I found
instead was that under uniform conditions, imposed by the
laboratory, people responded more or less in uniform manners. The
resulting behavior told me little about the people and more about
my laboratory. After considerable search for a better understanding
of my own formal training in psychology on the one hand and my
diversified cultural background on the other, I began to see that
these two early influences clashed in some basic manner. Upon
further reflection it occurred to me that my own radical
transformation in a period of six years, from a poorly educated
(elementary school only) adult to a doctor of philosophy, made me
see a different world. My earlier world of reality revolved around
forms of evidence that were not only never questioned by me, but v
vi PREFACE were themselves highly unreliable.
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