Toward Transformation in Social Knowledge

by Kenneth J. Gergen

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803989725
• ISBN13: 9780803989726
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"