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Social constructionism, discourse and realism / edited by Ian Parker.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Inquiries in social constructionPublication details: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 159 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781848609273
  • 1848609272
  • 0585333335
  • 9780585333335
  • 1446236617
  • 9781446236611
  • 1283880660
  • 9781283880664
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Social constructionism, discourse and realism.DDC classification:
  • 302 21
LOC classification:
  • HM251 .S671163 1998eb
Other classification:
  • 77.02
Online resources:
Contents:
Foreword / Rom Harre. 1. Realism, Relativism and Critique in Psychology / Ian Parker -- pt. I. Debates. 2. Overview: Realism, Relativism, Social Constructionism and Discourse / Vivien Burr. 3. Fragments in the Realization of Relativism / Jonathan Potter. 4. Language, Practice and Realism / Andrew Collier. 5. What is to be done? (With Apologies to Lenin!) / Ruth Merttens. 6. As One in a Web? Discourse, Materiality and the Place of Ethics / Steven D. Brown, Joan Pujol and Beryl C. Curt. 7. Social Constructionism and Revolutionary Socialism: A Contradiction in Terms? / Carla Willig -- pt. II. Commentaries. 8. Across the S-S Divide / Don Foster. 9. The Perverse and Pervasive Character of Reality: Some Comments on the Effects of Monism and Dualism / Maritza Montero. 10. Psychology's Subject: A Commentary on the Relativism/Realism Debate / Bronwyn Davies. 11. Constructionism and Realism: How Are We to Go On? / Kenneth J. Gergen.
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Summary: Drawing upon the wider critical and discursive turn in the human sciences, Social Constructionism, Discourse and Realism explores comprehensively the many claims about what we can know of `reality' in social constructionist and discursive research in psychology. Relativist versus realist tensions go to the heart of current theoretical and methodological issues, not only within psychology but across the social and human sciences. By mapping the connections between theory, method and politics in social research and placing these within the context of the broader social constr.
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Foreword / Rom Harre. 1. Realism, Relativism and Critique in Psychology / Ian Parker -- pt. I. Debates. 2. Overview: Realism, Relativism, Social Constructionism and Discourse / Vivien Burr. 3. Fragments in the Realization of Relativism / Jonathan Potter. 4. Language, Practice and Realism / Andrew Collier. 5. What is to be done? (With Apologies to Lenin!) / Ruth Merttens. 6. As One in a Web? Discourse, Materiality and the Place of Ethics / Steven D. Brown, Joan Pujol and Beryl C. Curt. 7. Social Constructionism and Revolutionary Socialism: A Contradiction in Terms? / Carla Willig -- pt. II. Commentaries. 8. Across the S-S Divide / Don Foster. 9. The Perverse and Pervasive Character of Reality: Some Comments on the Effects of Monism and Dualism / Maritza Montero. 10. Psychology's Subject: A Commentary on the Relativism/Realism Debate / Bronwyn Davies. 11. Constructionism and Realism: How Are We to Go On? / Kenneth J. Gergen.

Drawing upon the wider critical and discursive turn in the human sciences, Social Constructionism, Discourse and Realism explores comprehensively the many claims about what we can know of `reality' in social constructionist and discursive research in psychology. Relativist versus realist tensions go to the heart of current theoretical and methodological issues, not only within psychology but across the social and human sciences. By mapping the connections between theory, method and politics in social research and placing these within the context of the broader social constr.

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