Toward Transformation in Social Knowledge (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780803989726)

Critical resistance to traditional empirical methods and the quest for foundational knowledge of human action is widespread. Recognition of theoretical and methodological inadequacies has sparked a search for a more robust conception of human science.

This fascinating and carefully reasoned book develops the argument for human science as social construction. Demonstrating that descriptions of human action can neither be derived from nor corrected by scientific observation, Gergen provides a bold interdisciplinary challenge to traditional views, thus clearing the way for significant alterations in scientific practice. In the preface to the Second Edition, Gergen describes the major movements taking place since the First Edit

Author: Kenneth J. Gergen
ISBN-10: 0803989725
ISBN-13: 9780803989726
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Language: English
Published: 03/07/1994
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.07w x 0.69d