Toward Transformation in Social Knowledge - Softcover

Gergen, Kenneth J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803989725 ISBN 13: 9780803989726

Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

Critical resistance to traditional empirical methods and the quest for foundational knowledge of human action is widespread. Recognition of theoretical and methodological inadequacies has sparked a search for a more robust conception of human science.

This fascinating and carefully reasoned book develops the argument for human science as social construction. Demonstrating that descriptions of human action can neither be derived from nor corrected by scientific observation, Gergen provides a bold interdisciplinary challenge to traditional views, thus clearing the way for significant alterations in scientific practice. In the preface to the Second Edition, Gergen describes the major movements taking place since the First Edit

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kenneth J Gergen is Mustin Professor of Psychology at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0803989725
• ISBN 13: 9780803989726
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 260
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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