Social Construction

PART ONE: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE REAL AND THE GOOD Introduction On Scientific Paradigms - Thomas S Kuhn Socially Negotiating Knowledge - Harold Garfinkel Knowledge As Socially Constructed - Kenneth J Gergen Knowledge As a Language Game - Ludwig Wittgenstein Economics As Rhetoric - Diedre N McCloskey Knowledge As a Numbers Game - Gudmund R Iversen The Egg and the Sperm - Emily Martin Knowledge As Ideology PART TWO: CONSTRUCTING THE PERSON: CULTURE AND CRITIQUE Introduction Emotion - Catherine A Lutz The Universal As Local The Meanings of Pain - David Morris Power and Confession - Michel Foucault Learning to Labour - Paul Willis PART THREE: HORIZONS OF INQUIRY Introduction Life Stories - Mary Gergen Pieces of a Dream The Secret Life in a Culture of Thinness - Lisa M Tillmann-Healy Troubling the Angels - Patti Lather and Chris Smithies Silent Voices - Karen V Fox A Subversive Reading of Child Sexual Abuse Together Against the Computer - Gustavo I de Roux Glimpses of Street Children through Short Stories - Marcelo Diversi PART FOUR: THE RELATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION OF THE SELF Introduction Possessive Individualism and the Self-Contained Ideal - Edward E Sampson Identity, Deconstruction and Politics - Judith Butler The Social Construction of Remembering and Forgetting - John Shotter The Relational Reconstruction of Repression - Michael Billig The Social Construction of Emotion - Rom Harr[ac]e Meaning in Relationship - Kenneth J Gergen PART FIVE: PROFUSIONS OF PRACTICE Introduction Narrative Therapy and Externalizing the Problem - Michael White Culture of Education - Jerome Bruner Appreciative Inquiry - David L Cooperrider and Diana Whitney From Stuck Debate to New Conversation - Carol Becker et al PART SIX: READING CULTURE Introduction The World of Wrestling - Roland Barthes The Lone Ranger, Barbar and Other Innocent Heroes - Ariel Dorfman Style in Revolt - Dick Hebdige Revolting Style Post-Colonial Feminism and the Veil - Lama Abu Odeh Thinking the Difference PART SEVEN: CONSTRUCTIONISM IN QUESTION Introduction Death and Furniture - Derek Edwards, Malcolm Ashmore and Jonathan Potter Arguments against Relativism Relativism and Feminist Psychology - Alexa Hepburn Sexual Orientation - Janis S Bohan and Glenda M Russell Essential and Constructed