Unfolding social constructionism / by Fiona J. Hibberd.
Material type: TextSeries: History and philosophy of psychologyPublisher: New York : Springer, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: xviii, 207 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0387229744
- 9780387229744
- 302 22
- HM1033 .H53 2005
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-198) and index.
1. Social constructionism as a metatheory of psychological science -- 2. Relativism and self-refutation -- 3. Non-factualism -- 4. The received view of logical positivism and its relationship to social constructionism -- 5. Conventionalism -- 6. Meaning as use -- 7. Phenomenalism and its analogue -- 8. Conclusions and speculations.
"This book examines social constructionism as a metatheory of psychology. It does not consider constructionist accounts of psycho-social phenomena, but it does assess certain assumptions which are said to underpin those accounts - assumptions which are primarily semantic and epistemological."--BOOK JACKET.
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