Realities and Relationships by Kenneth J Gergen

Realities and Relationships by Kenneth J Gergen

Drawing from social and literary accounts of discourse, Gergen outlines the major elements of a social constructionist perspective and illustrates its potential, with an aim to initiate debate on the future of constructionist pursuits in the human sciences generally and psychology in particular.

Critics and supporters alike of social constructionism will find Gergen’s volume an important contributionIt provides a cogent and powerfully rendered statement of the assumptions and claimed potentials of social constructionism...Realities and Relationships will likely emerge as a classic that will be cited widely for some time to come. -- Leslie A. Baxter * Contemporary Psychology *
A true landmark in the development of constructionist perspectives, Gergen’s book is a powerful tour de force through the existing mindscape of psychology and the other human sciences. It is by far the best exposure of readers to the intellectual world of constructionism in the literature so far. -- Jaan Valsiner, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Kenneth J. Gergen is Senior Research Professor of Psychology at Swarthmore College. He is the author of The Saturated Self and Toward Transformation in Social Knowledge.

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ISBN 13	9780674749313
ISBN 10	0674749316
Title	Realities and Relationships
Author	Kenneth J Gergen
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Harvard University Press
Year published	1997-09-30
Number of pages	368
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