TY - BOOK AU - Parker,Ian TI - Social constructionism, discourse and realism T2 - Inquiries in social construction SN - 9781848609273 AV - HM251 .S671163 1998eb U1 - 302 21 PY - 1998/// CY - London, Thousand Oaks, Calif. PB - SAGE Publications KW - Social psychology KW - Subjectivity KW - Discourse analysis KW - Social sciences KW - Philosophy KW - Psychologie sociale KW - Philosophie KW - Subjectivisme KW - Relativit�e KW - Sciences sociales KW - R�ealisme KW - PSYCHOLOGY KW - Social Psychology KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Wetenschapsfilosofie KW - gtt KW - Psychologie KW - Constructivisme KW - Electronic book KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; [S.l.]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 N2 - 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 UR - https://libproxy.firstcity.edu.my:8443/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=47917 ER -