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 Edition was published over a decade ago.
- ISBN10 0803989717
- ISBN13 9780803989719
- Publish Date 23 December 1993 (first published 22 December 1993)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 February 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Sage Publications Ltd
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English