Social Constructionist Psychology

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British psychologists, with a few others, explore the growing unease with dominant discursive trends in social contructivism, which analyze language and discourse to the exclusion of the material world, embodiment, personal-social history, and power. Such trends, they argue, are inadequate or incomplete, and thus risk preventing social constructionism from maturing into a viable and coherent body of theory, method, and practice. Though highly critical, they are committed to a constructionism analysis of the human condition, and are come not to bury it but to tidy it up. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)