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Toward Transformation in Social Knowledge

Kenneth J. Gergen

5/5 ( ratings)

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

Language: English

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Release: March 07, 1994

ISBN: 0803989725

ISBN 13: 9780803989726

Toward Transformation in Social Knowledge

Kenneth J. Gergen

5/5 ( ratings)

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

Language: English

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Release: March 07, 1994

ISBN: 0803989725

ISBN 13: 9780803989726

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