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Social constructionism : sources and stirrings in theory and practice

Title
Social constructionism : sources and stirrings in theory and practice / Andy Lock, Tom Strong.
Author
Lock, Andrew.
Publication
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Additional Authors
Strong, Thomas.
Description
xviii, 383 pages; 26 cm
Summary
"Social Constructionism: Sources and Stirrings in Theory and Practice offers an introduction to the different theorists and schools of thought that have contributed to the development of contemporary social constructionist ideas, charting a course through the ideas that underpin the discipline. From the New Science of Vico in the eighteenth century, through to Marxist writers, ethnomethodologists and Wittgenstein, ideas as to how socio-cultural processes provide the resources that make us human are traced to the present day. Despite constructionists often being criticized as 'relativists', 'activists' and 'anti-establishment' and for making no concrete contributions, their ideas are now being adopted by practically oriented disciplines such as management consultancy, advertising, therapy, education and nursing. Andy Lock and Tom Strong aim to provoke a wider grasp of an alternative history and tradition that has developed alongside the one emphasized in traditional histories of the social sciences."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Social constructionism
  • Sociology
  • sociology
  • Konstruktivismus Philosophie
  • Konstruktivismus Soziologie
  • Sozialpsychologie
  • Soziale Konstruktion
  • Konstruktivismus > Sozialwissenschaften
  • Sozialwissenschaften > Konstruktivismus
  • Konstruktivismus > Psychologie
  • Soziale Konstruktion
  • Sociologi
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Giambattista Vico -- Phenomenology -- Hermeneutics -- Marxism and language -- Lev Vygotsky -- Meaning and perspectives: George Herbert Mead and Jakob von Uexküll -- Ludwig Wittgenstein: 'Shewing out of the bottle' -- Gregory Bateson: a cybernetic view of communication and human interaction -- Sociologies- micro and macro: Garfinkel, Goffman and Giddens -- Sources of the self -- Michel Foucault and his challenges -- Discourse analysis -- Ken and Mary Gergen -- Rom Harré -- John Shotter.
ISBN
  • 9780521881999
  • 0521881994
  • 9780521708357
  • 0521708354
  • 9780511815454 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2009049664
OCLC
  • ocn435418163
  • 435418163
  • SCSB-8806861
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library