The Sage Handbook of Social Constructionist Practice. Группа авторов
degenerate; callousness, defensiveness, exploitation, and aggression are commonplace. We find ourselves, then, immersed in a drift toward mutual annihilation.
It is in just such conditions that the kinds of ideas and practices represented in this Handbook are most vitally needed. The constructionist dialogues themselves invite a humility with respect to one's own convictions, as they remind us that our beliefs and values have no foundations other than those which we create together. Invited as well is a curiosity about others’ beliefs and ways of life, as these will contain insights and possibilities that may enrich the human venture. And, as we have seen, constructionist theory invites a posture of creativity, emphasizing our potentials for co-creating new and more inclusive ways of life. The practices shared within this Handbook provide both a direction toward a more promising future, and the confidence that it can be achieved.
Note
1 Although the term ‘constructivism’ has early roots in a theory of mind, it is now widely used synonymously with the more socially oriented emphasis of ‘social constructionism’.
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2 Practices of Inquiry: Invitation to Innovation
Mary M. Gergen
With the emergence of the social sciences in the early twentieth century, debates on the nature of research were active and ubiquitous. However, somewhere toward the mid-twentieth century, such controversy was largely replaced by convergence. More specifically, for many social scientists there was much to be gained by embracing what appeared to be philosophic foundations for a unified science. By identifying themselves with the assumptions of logical positivist philosophy, the social sciences would be placed on an equal footing with such widely respected sciences as physics, chemistry, and biology. At the same time, in the process of embracing a positivist conception of research, there was a radical reduction in what counted as an acceptable research practice. As the disciplines of science took shape, so did the disciplining of research methods. Then, with the emergence of social constructionist dialogues in the late twentieth century, a sea-change took place. These dialogues offered a major