La culture contemporaine a connu une métamorphose et plus rien, semble-t-il, ne résiste à cette dénaturation, voire à cet effacement de sa valeur. La banalisation des arts et des lettres, le triomphe de la presse people et la frivolité des politiques sont, pour Mario Vargas Llos…
Written in 1932, just before the fall of the Weimar Republic and on the eve of the Nazi accession to power, Ernst Jünger{u2019}s The Worker: Dominion and Form articulates a trenchant critique of bourgeois liberalism and seeks to identify the form characteristic of the modern age…
Using a variety of examples from everyday experience and from existing research in areas such as personality, sexuality and health, the basic theoretical assumptions of social constructionism are explained. The text maintains a critical approach but is broadly sympathetic to soc…
Now in its third edition, this successful book introduces students to the area of social science theory and research known as social constructionism. Using a variety of examples from everyday experience and from existing research in areas such as personality, sexuality and healt…
"Now in its third edition, this successful book introduces students to the area of social science theory and research known as social constructionism. Using a variety of examples from everyday experience and from existing research in areas such as personality, sexuality and heal…
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. Ident…
"Now in its third edition, this successful book introduces students to the area of social science theory and research known as social constructionism. Using a variety of examples from everyday experience and from existing research in areas such as personality, sexuality and heal…