Therapy as Social Construction

Author: Sheila McNamee
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780803983038
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 236

Book Description
Explores the possibilities for the therapeutic process of adopting a social constructionist perspective. Topics covered in this text include the theoretical basis for social constructionist therapy, and various approaches in practice, such as irreverant therapy and the not-knowing therapist.

An Invitation to Social Construction

Author: Kenneth J Gergen
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1473927714
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
This new edition of Kenneth J. Gergen’s celebrated text An Invitation to Social Construction is now even more accessible for students, offering a clear and thorough introduction to one of the most significant movements in contemporary social science. The Third Edition includes: updates reflecting the many new developments in theory, research, and practice a more student-friendly, personal writing style three new chapters on education, and therapy and health care, and organizations key insights into how social construction can help support you in your research projects, from start to finish. An Invitation to Social Construction is the must-read text for all social science students, academics and practitioners wishing to learn about social constructionism, along with the forms of inquiry and practice central to its impact.

Social Construction

Author: Kenneth J Gergen
Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
This reader introduces a number of important viewpoints central to social constructionism and charts the development of social constructionist thought.

Social Constructionism

Author: Andy Lock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139487361
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 403

Book Description
Social Constructionism: Sources and Stirrings in Theory and Practice offers an introduction to the different theorists and schools of thought that have contributed to the development of contemporary social constructionist ideas, charting a course through the ideas that underpin the discipline. From the New Science of Vico in the 18th century, through to Marxist writers, ethnomethodologists and Wittgenstein, ideas as to how socio-cultural processes provide the resources that make us human are traced to the present day. Despite constructionists often being criticised as 'relativists', 'activists' and 'anti-establishment' and for making no concrete contributions, their ideas are now being adopted by practically-oriented disciplines such as management consultancy, advertising, therapy, education and nursing. Andy Lock and Tom Strong aim to provoke a wider grasp of an alternative history and tradition that has developed alongside the one emphasised in traditional histories of the social sciences.

An Invitation to Social Construction

Author: Kenneth J Gergen
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780803983779
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
In An Invitation to Social Construction, Kenneth Gergen charts the background to the social constructionist movement and outlines the major debates, topics and issues.

Relational Being

Author: Kenneth J. Gergen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199719403
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 449

Book Description
This book builds on two current developments in psychology scholarship and practice. The first centers on broad discontent with the individualist tradition in which the rational agent, or autonomous self, is considered the fundamental atom of social life. Critique of individualism spring not only from psychologists working in the academy, but also from communities of therapy and counseling. The second, and related development from which this work builds, is the search for alternatives to individualist understanding. Thus, therapists such as Steve Mitchell, along with feminists at the Stone Center, expand the psychoanalytic tradition to include a relational orientation to therapy. The present volume will give voice to the critique of individualism, but its major thrust is to develop and illustrate a far more radical and potentially exciting landscape of relational thought and practice that now exists. Most existing attempts to build a relational foundation remain committed to a residual form of individualist psychology. The present work carves out a space of understanding in which relational process stands prior to the very concept of the individual. More broadly, the book attempts to develop a thoroughgoing relational account of human activity. In doing so, Gergen reconstitutes 'the mind' as a manifestation of relationships and bears out these ideas in a range of everyday professional practices, including family therapy, collaborative classrooms, and organizational psychology.

Social Construction in Context

Author: Kenneth J Gergen
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1412932130
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
This latest book by one the world′s leading protagonists in the field will be welcomed not just by psychologists but by students, academics and professionals interested in social constructionism across a wide range of subjects. Social Construction in Context explores the potentials of social constructionist theory when placed in diverse intellectual and practical contexts. It demonstrates the achievements of social constructionism, and what it can now offer various fields of inquiry, both academic, professional and applied, given the proliferation of the theory across the social sciences and humanities. First order issues of concern within the academic world, objectivity, truth, power and ideology, are now being augmented by widespread developments in practice - therapeutic, pedagogical, organizational and political. This book looks closely at these developments and examines both the positive potentials and limitations of social constructionist theory when applied to a variety of domains. It has been written in an accessible and scholarly manner making it suitable for a wide-ranging readership.

An Invitation to Social Construction

Author: Kenneth J Gergen
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1529786614
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 316

Book Description
This fully updated fourth edition of Gergen’s An Invitation to Social Construction introduces you to a key theoretical movement in contemporary social science through a wide range of multidisciplinary examples. The fourth edition includes: wider consideration of contemporary global challenges, increased coverage of media, digital culture, and relevant political issues, updated real-world examples of social constructionist theory in action, in research, education, therapy, organizations, and peace building. This book brings together complex theories that inform and critically build upon social constructionism, such as narratology, deconstruction, dialogism, positivism, and post-structuralism, in a way that is accessible for students and researchers alike. It is a vital resource for those studying social psychology and critical social psychology who are looking for a comprehensive guide to one of the core topics in the field. Kenneth J Gergen is Senior Research Professor in Psychology at Swarthmore College, and the President of the Taos Institute.

The Social Construction of Organization

Author: Dian Marie Hosking
Publisher: Copenhagen Business School Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
Why do I write about organizations in poetry? / Caroline Ramsey -- Making your way / Dian Marie Hosking and Sheila McNamee -- Organizational science and the promises of postmodernism / Kenneth J. Gergen and Tojo Thatchenkery -- Organizations, organizing, and related concepts of change / Dian Marie Hosking -- Patterns of engagement / Christopher James Blantern and Murray Anderson-Wallace -- Subject-object relations, knowledge and power / Dian Marie Hosking and Sheila McNamee -- Auditive leadership culture: lessons from symphony orchestras / Niina Koivunen -- Reflections on power in organization / John Lannamann -- Abilities, competencies and selection decision-making / Len Holmes -- The group-in-the-making: from "group dynamics" to "relational practices" / Rene Bouwen and Johan Hovelynck -- Narrative approaches to inquiry / Sheila McNamee and Dian Marie Hosking -- Voicing differences and becoming other: life-stories of immigrants in an organizational context / Lars Nellmann Thisted and Chris Steyeart -- The social side of innovation: a process perspective / Bart Van Looy, Rene Bouwen and Koenraad Debackere -- Learning organizations: the emergence of a relational-interpretive view of organization / Mark Addleson -- Appreciative evaluation in an educational context: inviting conversations of assessment and development / Sheila McNamee -- Wittgenstein, Bakhtin, management and the dialogical / Ann L. Cunliffe and John Shotter -- Consulting: new language, new possibilities? / Klaus G. Deissler --Metaphors / Dian Marie Hosking and Sheila McNamee -- Lev Vygotsky and the New Performative Psychology: some implications for business and organizations / Lois Holzman -- Living in organizations: lessons from jazz improvisation / Frank Barrett -- Dialogue, talk, and debate / Sheila McNamee and Dian Marie Hosking -- Disturbing patterns of engagement / Christopher James Blantern and Murray Anderson-Wallace.

An Invitation to Social Research

Author: Pertti Alasuutari
Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
This text on social research outlines how to study social and cultural phenomena, explains the difference between qualitative and quantitative analysis, and examines the relationship between social research and society.