Handbook of constructionist research

Abstract

Introduction. Gubrium, Holstein, The Constructionist Mosaic. Part 1. Foundations and Historical Context. Weinberg, The Philosophical Foundations of Constructionist Research. Best, Historical Development and Defining Issues of Constructionist Inquiry. Part 2. Constructionism across the Disciplines. Faubion, Marcus, Constructionism in Anthropology. Foster, Bochner, Social Constructionist Perspectives in Communication Research. Wortham, Jackson, Educational Constructionisms. Samra-Fredericks, Social Constructionism in Management and Organization Studies. Latimer, Critical Constructionism in Nursing Research. K. Gergen, M. Gergen, Social Construction and Psychological Inquiry. Schneider, Ingram, Social Constructions in the Study of Public Policy. Restivo, Croissant, Social Constructionism in Science and Technology Studies. Harris, Constructionism in Sociology. Part 3. The Scope of Constructionist Inquiry. Miller, Foucauldian Constructionism. Potter, Hepburn, Discursive Constructionism. Sparkes, Smith, Narrative Constructionist Inquiry. Marvasti, Interactional Constructionism. Lowney, Claimsmaking, Culture, and the Media in the Social Construction Process. Ibarra, Strict and Contextual Constructionism in the Sociology of Deviance and Social Problems. Part 4. Strategies and Techniques. Holstein, Gubrium, Constructionist Impulses in Ethnographic Fieldwork. Charmaz, Constructionism and the Grounded Theory Method. Nikander, Constructionism and Discourse Analysis. Koro-Ljungberg, A Social Constructionist Framing of the Research Interview. Ellingson, Ellis, Autoethnography as Constructionist Project. Linders, Documents, Texts, and Archives in Constructionist Research. Part 5. The Social Construction of What? Turner, The Constructed Body. Loseke, Kusenbach, The Social Construction of Emotion. Lorber, Constructing Gender: The Dancer and the Dance. Crawley, Broad, The Construction of Sex and Sexualities. Berbrier, The Diverse Construction of Race and Ethnicity. Atkinson, Gregory, Constructions of Medical Knowledge. Miller, Strong, Constructing Therapy and Its Outcomes. Strath, Constructionist Themes in the Historiography of the Nation. Part 6. Continuing Challenges. Pfohl, The Reality of Social Constructions. Hosking, Can Constructionism Be Critical? Marshall, Feminism and Constructionism. McCoy, Institutional Ethnography and Constructionism. Lynch, Ethnomethodology as a Provocation to Constructionism. Schneider, Saving Social Construction: Contributions from Cultural Studies. Amit, Writing Culture, Holism, and the Partialities of Ethnographic Inquiry. Alasuutari, Constructionist Research and Globalization.