Andy Lock (Auckland Massey University), Tom Strong (University of Calgary)

Social Constructionism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A critical and thematic survey of the diverse traditions and recent developments within contemporary social constructionism.

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Social constructionism is the belief that human communication is central to understanding the actions by which people live. This book charts a course through the ideas that underpin social constructionism, introducing the different theorists and schools of thought that have contributed to its development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 798g
• ISBN-13: 9780521708357
• ISBN-10: 0521708354
• Artikelnr.: 28530565

Autorenporträt

Andy Lock is Professor of Psychology in the School of Psychology at Massey University, New Zealand.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Giambattista Vico
3. Phenomenology
4. Hermeneutics
5. Marxism and language
6. Lev Vygotsky
7. Meanings and perspectives: George Herbert Mead and Jakob von Uexküll
8. Ludwig Wittgenstein: 'shewing the fly out of the bottle'
9. Gregory Bateson: a cybernetic view of communication and human interaction
10. Sociologies - micro and macro: Garfinkel, Goffman and Giddens
11. Sources of the self
12. Michel Foucault and his challenges
13. Discourse analysis
14. Ken and Mary Gergen
15. Rom Harre
16. John Shotter
17. Concluding remarks.