PART ONE: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE REAL AND THE GOOD
Introduction
On Scientific Paradigms - Thomas S Kuhn
Socially Negotiating Knowledge - Harold Garfinkel
Knowledge As Socially Constructed - Kenneth J Gergen
Knowledge As a Language Game - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Economics As Rhetoric - Diedre N McCloskey
Knowledge As a Numbers Game - Gudmund R Iversen
The Egg and the Sperm - Emily Martin
Knowledge As Ideology
PART TWO: CONSTRUCTING THE PERSON: CULTURE AND CRITIQUE
Introduction
Emotion - Catherine A Lutz
The Universal As Local
The Meanings of Pain - David Morris
Power and Confession - Michel Foucault
Learning to Labour - Paul Willis
PART THREE: HORIZONS OF INQUIRY
Introduction
Life Stories - Mary Gergen
Pieces of a Dream
The Secret Life in a Culture of Thinness - Lisa M Tillmann-Healy
Troubling the Angels - Patti Lather and Chris Smithies
Silent Voices - Karen V Fox
A Subversive Reading of Child Sexual Abuse
Together Against the Computer - Gustavo I de Roux
Glimpses of Street Children through Short Stories - Marcelo Diversi
PART FOUR: THE RELATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION OF THE SELF
Introduction
Possessive Individualism and the Self-Contained Ideal - Edward E Sampson
Identity, Deconstruction and Politics - Judith Butler
The Social Construction of Remembering and Forgetting - John Shotter
The Relational Reconstruction of Repression - Michael Billig
The Social Construction of Emotion - Rom Harr[ac]e
Meaning in Relationship - Kenneth J Gergen
PART FIVE: PROFUSIONS OF PRACTICE
Introduction
Narrative Therapy and Externalizing the Problem - Michael White
Culture of Education - Jerome Bruner
Appreciative Inquiry - David L Cooperrider and Diana Whitney
From Stuck Debate to New Conversation - Carol Becker et al
PART SIX: READING CULTURE
Introduction
The World of Wrestling - Roland Barthes
The Lone Ranger, Barbar and Other Innocent Heroes - Ariel Dorfman
Style in Revolt - Dick Hebdige
Revolting Style
Post-Colonial Feminism and the Veil - Lama Abu Odeh
Thinking the Difference
PART SEVEN: CONSTRUCTIONISM IN QUESTION
Introduction
Death and Furniture - Derek Edwards, Malcolm Ashmore and Jonathan Potter
Arguments against Relativism
Relativism and Feminist Psychology - Alexa Hepburn
Sexual Orientation - Janis S Bohan and Glenda M Russell
Essential and Constructed