Social Constructionism
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Social Constructionism

Sources and Stirrings in Theory and Practice

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eBook - PDF

Social Constructionism

Sources and Stirrings in Theory and Practice

About this book

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 18th 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 criticised 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 emphasised in traditional histories of the social sciences.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. 1 Introduction
  10. 2 Giambattista Vico
  11. 3 Phenomenology
  12. 4 Hermeneutics
  13. 5 Marxism and language
  14. 6 Lev Vygotsky
  15. 7 Meanings and perspectives: George Herbert Mead and Jakob von Uexküll
  16. 8 Ludwig Wittgenstein: ‘Shewing the fly out of the bottle’
  17. 9 Gregory Bateson: A Cybernetic View of Communication and Human Interaction
  18. 10 Sociologies – Micro and Macro: Garfinkel, Goffman and Giddens
  19. 11 Sources of the self
  20. 12 Michel Foucault and his challenges
  21. 13 Discourse analysis
  22. 14 Ken and Mary Gergen
  23. 15 Rom Harré
  24. 16 John Shotter
  25. 17 Concluding remarks
  26. Bibliography
  27. Index