Toward Transformation in Social Knowledge

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Toward Transformation in Social Knowledge is written by Kenneth J Gergen and published by SAGE Publications Limited. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0803989717 (ISBN 10) and 9780803989719 (ISBN 13).

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 Edit