Social Constructionism, Discourse and Realism

This book charts a clear and accessible path through some of the key debates in contemporary psychology. Drawing upon the wider critical and discursive turn in the human sciences, Social Constructionism, Discourse and Realism explores comprehensively the many claims about what we can know of reality′ in social constructionist and discursive research in psychology.

Relativist versus realist tensions go to the heart of current theoretical and methodological issues, not only within psychology but across the social and human sciences. By mapping the connections between theory, method and politics in social research and placing these within the context of the broader social constructionist and discursive debates, the int

Author: Ian Patrick
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: 06/18/1998
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 9.42h x 6.06w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9780761953777

About the Author
Patrick, Ian: - Ian Parker is Professor of Psychology in the Discourse Unit at Bolton Institute. He is author of Psychoanalytic Culture (SAGE, 1997) and co-author of Deconstructing Psychopathology (SAGE, 1995).

CONTRIBUTORS

Steven D Brown Keele University

Vivien Burr University of Huddersfield

Andrew Collier University of Southampton

Bronwyn Davies James Cook University

Don Foster University of Cape Town

Kenneth J Gergen Swarthmore College

Rom Harre Oxford University

Maritza Montero Universidad Central de Venezuela

Jonathan Potter Loughborough University

Joan Pujol University of Huddersfield

Carla Willig Middlesex University