Social Construction: A Reader Book

Pt. I	The Social Construction of the Real and the Good	1
	Introduction	2
1	On Scientific Paradigms	7
2	Socially Negotiating Knowledge	11
3	Knowledge as Socially Constructed	15
4	Knowledge as a Language Game	18
5	Economics as Rhetoric	20
6	Knowledge as a Numbers Game	23
7	The Egg and the Sperm: Knowledge as Ideology	27
Pt. II	Constructing the Person: Culture and Critique	33
	Introduction	34
8	Emotion: The Universal as Local	39
9	The Meanings of Pain	43
10	Power and Confession	47
11	Learning to Labour	50
Pt. III	Horizons of Inquiry	59
	Introduction	60
12	Life Stories: Pieces of a Dream	65
13	A Secret Life in a Culture of Thinness	78
14	Troubling the Angels	89
15	Silent Voices: A Subversive Reading of Child Sexual Abuse	92
16	Together against the Computer	102
17	Glimpses of Street Children Through Short Stories	109
Pt. IV	The Relational Reconstruction of Self	119
	Introduction	120
18	Possessive Individualism and the Self-Contained Ideal	123
19	Identity, Deconstruction, & Politics	129
20	The Social Construction of Remembering & Forgetting	132
21	The Relational Reconstruction of Repression	138
22	The Social Construction of Emotion	146
23	Meaning in Relationship	148
Pt. V	Profusions of Practice	157
	Introduction	158
24	Narrative Therapy and Externalizing the Problem	163
25	The Culture of Education	169
26	Appreciative Inquiry	173
27	From Stuck Debate to New Conversation	182
Pt. VI	Reading Culture	193
	Introduction	194
28	The World of Wrestling	197
29	The Lone Ranger, Barbar, and Other Innocent Heroes	200
30	Style in Revolt: Revolting Style	209
31	Post-Colonial Feminism and the Veil: Thinking the Difference	216
Pt. VII	Constructionism in Question	227
	Introduction	228
32	Death and Furniture: Arguments against Relativism	231
33	Relativism & Feminist Psychology	237
34	Sexual Orientation: Essential and Constructed	248