Research Catalog

Title

Social constructionist psychology : a critical analysis of theory and practice / edited by David J. Nightingale and John Cromby.

Publication

Buckingham [England] ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 1999.

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Additional Authors

• Nightingale, David J., 1963-
• Cromby, John, 1961-

Description

xvi, 236 pages; 23 cm

Summary

This work explores the growing conviction that dominant trends in social constructionism are inadequate or incomplete and risk preventing social constructionism from maturing into a viable and coherent body of theory, method and practice.

Subject

• Social psychology
• Social perception
• Cultural relativism
• Subjectivity
• Discourse analysis
• Psychology > Philosophy
• Psychology, Social
• Social Perception
• social psychology
• Sozialpsychologie
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Sociaal constructionisme
• Sociale waarneming
• Sociale psychologie
• Culturele verschillen

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

What's wrong with social constructionism? / John Cromby, David J. Nightingale -- A critical analysis of theory -- Critical reflexive humanism and critical constructionist psychology / Ian Parker -- Beyond appearances: a critical realist approach to social constructionist work / Carla Willig -- A paradigm shift? Connections with other critiques of social constructionism / Mike Michael -- Materiality and embodiment -- Between the dark and the light: power and the material contexts of social relations / Ian Burkitt -- 'Discourse or materiality?' Impure alternatives for recurrent debates / Joan Pujol, Marisela Montenegro -- Discourse and the embodied person / Rom Harre -- The extra-discursive in social constructionism / Vivien Burr -- Realism, constructionism and phenomenology / Trevor Butt -- Taking our selves seriously / John Cromby, Penny Standen -- A critical analysis of practice -- Whose construction? Points from a feminist perspective / Erica Burman -- Social constructionism: implications for psychotherapeutic practice / Christine Kenwood -- That's all very well, but what use is it? / Wendy Stainton Rogers, Rex Stainton Rogers -- Reconstructing social constructionism / David J. Nightingale, John Cromby.

ISBN

• 0335201938
• 9780335201938
• 033520192X
• 9780335201921

LCCN

99025217

OCLC

• ocm41017525
• 41017525
• SCSB-8804685

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library