Social Constructionism

The fourth edition of this seminal work introduces students to social constructionism. Using a variety of examples from everyday experience and from existing research in areas such as personality, sexuality and health, it clearly explains the basic theoretical assumptions of social constructionism.

Vivien Burr is Emerita Professor of Critical Psychology at the University of Huddersfield, UK. In addition to Social Constructionism, she is the author of Gender and Social Psychology, The Person in Social Psychology and Invitation to Personal Construct Psychology (with Trevor Butt). She is currently researching the psychosocial meaning of outdoor spaces (with Nigel King).

1. What is Social Constructionism? 2. The Case for Social Constructionism 3. The Role of Language in Social Constructionism 4. What is a Discourse? 5. Is There a Real World Outside Discourse? 6. Identity and Subjectivity in Macro Social Constructionism 7. Identity and Subjectivity in Micro Social Constructionism 8. Social Constructionist Research. 9. Issues and Debates in Social Constructionism