Realities and Relationships

副标题: Soundings in Social Construction

ISBN: 9780674749313

出版社: Harvard University Press

出版年: 1997-09-30

页数: 368

定价: USD 31.00

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

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, Kenneth 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 in psychology in particular.