Social Construction: A Reader by Mary Gergen (English) Paperback Book

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Social Construction

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Social constructionism does far more than unsettle our traditional beliefs in truth, objectivity, and knowledge; thrown into question is also the right of any particular group to claim it has the ultimate authority to any form of knowledge. Such a conclusion has enormous repercussions in the academic community and beyond. This Reader introduces a number of important contributions to contemporary constructionism and charts the development of thought from its very beginnings. The 34 excerpts represent the major viewpoints central to social constructionism including the voices of 42 prominent scholars in philosophy, ethnography, cultural studies, feminist thought and the wider social sciences. In concert with K J Gergen's Invitation to Social Construction (SAGE, 1999), or as a stand-alone text, it is a compendium of achievements in the field and will be an invaluable resource for students. Introductory essays by the editors give intellectual coherence to these diverse pieces and allow greater insight into emergent trends.Social Construction: A Reader will be required reading on courses across the social sciences but especially psychology, sociology, communication studies, cultural studies, human sciences and education.

Author Biography

Dr. Gergen is Professor Emerita at Penn State University, Brandywine, in the Philadelphia area.  She has taught courses in many subfields in psychology and in Women′s Studies.  Her major academic focus has been on social constructionist theory and feminism.  Currently she is an officer in the Taos Institute, a non-profit educational organization.  She also advises Ph.D. students in applied social science fields.   Her work has taken her to many countries around the glove, most recently Nanjing, China.   Recent collaborators include Kenneth J. Gergen and Ellen Cole. Kenneth J. Gergen is a Senior Research Professor in Psychology at Swarthmore College, and the President of the Taos Institute. He is internationally known for his contributions to social constructionist theory, technology and cultural change, the self, aging, education, and relational theory and practices. His major writings include, Realities and Relationships: Soundings in Social Construction, The Saturated Self: Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Life, and Relational Being: Beyond Self and Community. His most recent work Beyond the Tyranny of Testing: Relational Evaluation in Education (with Scherto Gill) offers a relational constructionist alternative to the destructive practices of testing and grading in education. Gergen lectures throughout the world, and has received numerous awards for his work, including honorary degrees in both the U.S. and Europe.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE REAL AND THE GOODIntroductionOn Scientific Paradigms - Thomas S KuhnSocially Negotiating Knowledge - Harold GarfinkelKnowledge As Socially Constructed - Kenneth J GergenKnowledge As a Language Game - Ludwig WittgensteinEconomics As Rhetoric - Diedre N McCloskeyKnowledge As a Numbers Game - Gudmund R IversenThe Egg and the Sperm - Emily MartinKnowledge As IdeologyPART TWO: CONSTRUCTING THE PERSON: CULTURE AND CRITIQUEIntroductionEmotion - Catherine A LutzThe Universal As LocalThe Meanings of Pain - David MorrisPower and Confession - Michel FoucaultLearning to Labour - Paul WillisPART THREE: HORIZONS OF INQUIRYIntroductionLife Stories - Mary GergenPieces of a DreamThe Secret Life in a Culture of Thinness - Lisa M Tillmann-HealyTroubling the Angels - Patti Lather and Chris SmithiesSilent Voices - Karen V FoxA Subversive Reading of Child Sexual AbuseTogether Against the Computer - Gustavo I de RouxGlimpses of Street Children through Short Stories - Marcelo DiversiPART FOUR: THE RELATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION OF THE SELFIntroductionPossessive Individualism and the Self-Contained Ideal - Edward E SampsonIdentity, Deconstruction and Politics - Judith ButlerThe Social Construction of Remembering and Forgetting - John ShotterThe Relational Reconstruction of Repression - Michael BilligThe Social Construction of Emotion - Rom Harr[ac]eMeaning in Relationship - Kenneth J GergenPART FIVE: PROFUSIONS OF PRACTICEIntroductionNarrative Therapy and Externalizing the Problem - Michael WhiteCulture of Education - Jerome BrunerAppreciative Inquiry - David L Cooperrider and Diana WhitneyFrom Stuck Debate to New Conversation - Carol Becker et alPART SIX: READING CULTUREIntroductionThe World of Wrestling - Roland BarthesThe Lone Ranger, Barbar and Other Innocent Heroes - Ariel DorfmanStyle in Revolt - Dick HebdigeRevolting StylePost-Colonial Feminism and the Veil - Lama Abu OdehThinking the DifferencePART SEVEN: CONSTRUCTIONISM IN QUESTIONIntroductionDeath and Furniture - Derek Edwards, Malcolm Ashmore and Jonathan PotterArguments against RelativismRelativism and Feminist Psychology - Alexa HepburnSexual Orientation - Janis S Bohan and Glenda M RussellEssential and Constructed

Details ISBN0761972293 Short Title SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION Pages 262 Language English ISBN-10 0761972293 ISBN-13 9780761972297 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2003 Subtitle A Reader Edition 1st Edited by Mary Gergen Author Kenneth J. Gergen Illustrations black & white illustrations Birth 1970 Imprint SAGE Publications Inc Place of Publication Thousand Oaks Country of Publication United States DOI 10.1604/9780761972297 NZ Release Date 2003-02-21 US Release Date 2003-02-21 UK Release Date 2003-02-21 Affiliation Professor of Public Law, University of Manchester Position Lecturer Qualifications M.D. Publisher SAGE Publications Inc Publication Date 2003-02-21 Alternative 9780761972280 DEWEY 301 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2003-02-20 We've got this

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