Realities and relationships : soundings in social construction

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Realities and relationships : soundings in social construction

Kenneth J. Gergen

Harvard University Press, 1994

  • : cloth

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Bibliography: p. [309]-343

Includes index

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Western culture has traditionally celebrated the individual mind as the locus of reason and, thus, of knowledge. According to Gergen, however, Descartes's famous dictum, "I think, therefore I am", should more properly be "I communicate, therefore I am". The process of doubt equates not with reason but with language, and meaningful language is less the possession of a single mind than the product of interdependent relationships. Recent attempts to challenge the primacy of reason - and its realization in foundationalist accounts of knowledge and cognitive formulations of human action - have focused on processes of discourse. Drawing from social and literary accounts of discourse Gergen considers these challenges to empiricism under the banner of "social construction". His aim is to outline the major elements of a social constructionist perspective, to illustrate its potential, and to initiate debate on the future of constructionist pursuits in the human sciences generally and psychology in particular. When the human sciences are guided by a constructionist perspective, when the relationship, not the individual, is the locus of knowledge, what forms of theory, research and practice result? Gergen revisits standard areas of inquiry in psychology - the self, the emotions, human understanding, pathology and psychotherapy - and opens fresh discussion on narratives, deceit, and morality. In each case he shows how the issues are transformed by constructionist insights.

目次

  • Part 1 From individual knowledge to communal construction: the impasse of individual knowledge
  • crisis in representation and the emergence of social construction
  • constructionism in question
  • social construction and moral orders. Part 2 Criticism and consequence: social psychology and the wrong revolution
  • the cultural consequences of deficit discourse
  • objectivity as rhetorical achievement. Part 3 From self to relationship: self-narration in social life
  • emotion as relationship
  • transcending narrative in the therapeutic context
  • the communal origins of meaning
  • deceit - from conscience to community.

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