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Gergen's Social Constructionism

Postmodern or Post-Hegelian?

Ronald Mather

Bolton Institute, rm4{at}bolton.ac.uk

There has been increasing interest in the epistemological and ontological implications of social constructionism. The debate has been conducted on almost overwhelmingly neo-Kantian terms: Do concepts (social practices, discourse, narratives) constitute objects? What are the consequences for things as they are in themselves? How are social actors to be understood in the light of their mode of epistemological access to this world? The following argues for a reorientation of social constructionism in the direction of questions around the nature of group dynamics and intersubjectivity.

Key Words: epistemological standpoint • Hegel • realism • self-consciousness

Theory & Psychology, Vol. 12, No. 5, 695-699 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/0959354302012005900
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