Unfolding Social Constructionism

• Main Author: Hibberd, Fiona J. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Series: History and Philosophy of Psychology
• Subjects: Psychology.; Personality.; Social psychology.; History of Psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.

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. The first...