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Constructionism has become one of the most popular research approaches in the social sciences. But until now, little attention has been given to the conceptual and methodological underpinnings of the constructionist stance, and the remarkable diversity within the field. This cutting-edge handbook brings together a dazzling array of scholars to review the foundations of constructionist research, how it is put into practice in multiple disciplines, and where it may be headed in the future. The volume critically examines the analytic frameworks, strategies of inquiry, and methodological choices that together form the mosaic of contemporary constructionism, making it an authoritative reference for anyone interested in conducting research in a constructionist vein.

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• Introduction
• 1 The Constructionist Mosaic
• I Foundations and Historical Context
• 2 The Philosophical Foundations of Constructionist Research
• 3 Historical Development and Defining Issues of Constructionist Inquiry
• II Constructionism across the Disciplines
• 4 Constructionism in Anthropology
• 5 Social Constructionist Perspectives in Communication Research
• 6 Educational Constructionisms
• 7 Social Constructionism in Management and Organization Studies
• 8 Critical Constructionism in Nursing Research
• 9 Social Construction and Psychological Inquiry
• 10 Social Constructions in the Study of Public Policy
• 11 Social Constructionism in Science and Technology Studies
• 12 Constructionism in Sociology
• III The Scope of Constructionist Inquiry
• 13 Foucauldian Constructionism
• 14 Discursive Constructionism
• 15 Narrative Constructionist Inquiry
• 16 Interactional Constructionism
• 17 Claimsmaking, Culture, and the Media in the Social Construction Process
• 18 Strict and Contextual Constructionism in the Sociology of Deviance and Social Problems
• IV Strategies and Techniques
• 19 Constructionist Impulses in Ethnographic Fieldwork
• 20 Constructionism and the Grounded Theory Method
• 21 Constructionism and Discourse Analysis
• 22 A Social Constructionist Framing of the Research Interview
• 23 Autoethnography as Constructionist Project
• 24 Documents, Texts, and Archives in Constructionist Research
• V The Social Construction of What?
• 25 The Constructed Body
• 26 The Social Construction of Emotion
• 27 Constructing Gender: The Dancer and the Dance
• 28 The Construction of Sex and Sexualities
• 29 The Diverse Construction of Race and Ethnicity
• 30 Constructions of Medical Knowledge
• 31 Constructing Therapy and Its Outcomes
• 32 Constructionist Themes in the Historiography of the Nation
• VI Continuing Challenges
• 33 The Reality of Social Constructions
• 34 Can Constructionism Be Critical
• 35 Feminism and Constructionism
• 36 Institutional Ethnography and Constructionism
• 37 Ethnomethodology as a Provocation to Constructionism
• 38 Saving Social Construction: Contributions from Cultural Studies
• 39 Writing Culture, Holism, and the Partialities of Ethnographic Inquiry
• 40 Constructionist Research and Globalization

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

James A. Holstein (PhD, University of Michigan) is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University. His research and publications have addressed social problems, deviance and social control, family, and the self--all approached from an ethnomethodologically informed, constructionist perspective.

Jaber F. Gubrium (PhD, Wayne State University) is Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has had a long-standing program of research on the social organization of care in human services institutions and pioneered in the reconceptualization of qualitative methods and the development of narrative analysis. Dr. Gubrium has published widely on aging, the life course, medicalization, and representational practice in therapeutic context.

As collaborators for 20 years, Drs. Holstein and Gubrium have developed a distinctive constructionist approach to everyday life in a variety of coauthored and coedited projects.