Realities and Relationships: Soundings in Social Construction (Conversations in Social Construction Se)
Critics and supporters alike of social constructionism will find Gergen's volume an important contribution. It provides a cogent and powerfully rendered statement of the assumptions and claimed potentials of social constructionism...Realities and Relationshipswill likely emerge as a classic that will be cited widely for some time to come. (Leslie A. BaxterContemporary Psychology)A true landmark in the development of constructionist perspectives, Gergen's book is a powerfultour de forcethrough the existing mindscape of psychology and the other human sciences. It is by far the best exposure of readers to the intellectual world of constructionism in the literature so far. (Jaan Valsiner, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)