Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- A Rhetorical-Responsive Version of Social Constructionism -- Part One: A Rhetorical-Responsive Version Of Social Constructionism -- The Conversational Background of Social Life -- Beyond Representation -- Situating Social Constructionism -- Knowing ̀From Within' -- Dialogue and Rhetoric in the Construction of Social Relations -- Part Two: Realism, The Imaginary And A World Of Events -- The Limits of Realism -- Social Life and the Imaginary -- Linguistic Relativity in a World of Events -- Part Three: Conversational Realities -- In Search of a Past -- Therapeutic Re-Authoring -- Real and Counterfeit Constructions in Interpersonal Relations -- The Manager as a Practical Author -- Conversations for Action -- Rhetoric and the Recovery of Civil Society -- Epilogue -- Rhetorical-Responsive Social Constructionism in Summary Form -- Afterword - Roy Bhaskar
Summary
Challenges the traditional scientific view that naturally occurring psychological and sociological "realities" of a systematic kind are to be discovered underlying appearances. This text claims that such orderly "realities" are both socially constructed and sustained within everyday conversation
