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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Social Construction: A Reader is a collection of classic and contemporary articles, representing the major viewpoints central to social constructionism. It provides the reader with an overview of the key empirical research ideas and papers written by an outstanding collection of international authors in each of the substantive areas of the field, including philosophical, social science, ethnography, cultural studies and feminist thought. Zusammenfassung Social Construction Inhaltsverzeichnis PART ONE: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE REAL AND THE GOOD Introduction On Scientific Paradigms - Thomas S Kuhn Socially Negotiating Knowledge - Harold Garfinkel Knowledge As Socially Constructed - Kenneth J Gergen Knowledge As a Language Game - Ludwig Wittgenstein Economics As Rhetoric - Diedre N McCloskey Knowledge As a Numbers Game - Gudmund R Iversen The Egg and the Sperm - Emily Martin Knowledge As Ideology PART TWO: CONSTRUCTING THE PERSON: CULTURE AND CRITIQUE Introduction Emotion - Catherine A Lutz The Universal As Local The Meanings of Pain - David Morris Power and Confession - Michel Foucault Learning to Labour - Paul Willis PART THREE: HORIZONS OF INQUIRY Introduction Life Stories - Mary Gergen Pieces of a Dream The Secret Life in a Culture of Thinness - Lisa M Tillmann-Healy Troubling the Angels - Patti Lather and Chris Smithies Silent Voices - Karen V Fox A Subversive Reading of Child Sexual Abuse Together Against the Computer - Gustavo I de Roux Glimpses of Street Children through Short Stories - Marcelo Diversi PART FOUR: THE RELATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION OF THE SELF Introduction Possessive Individualism and the Self-Contained Ideal - Edward E Sampson Identity, Deconstruction and Politics - Judith Butler The Social Construction of Remembering and Forgetting - John Shotter The Relational Reconstruction of Repression - Michael Billig The Social Construction of Emotion - Rom Harr[ac]e Meaning in Relationship - Kenneth J Gergen PART FIVE: PROFUSIONS OF PRACTICE Introduction Narrative Therapy and Externalizing the Problem - Michael White Culture of Education - Jerome Bruner Appreciative Inquiry - David L Cooperrider and Diana Whitney From Stuck Debate to New Conversation - Carol Becker et al PART SIX: READING CULTURE Introduction...
