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Constructionism has become one of the most popular research approaches in the social sciences. But until now, little attention has been given to the conceptual and methodological underpinnings of the constructionist stance, and the remarkable diversity within the field. This cutting-edge Handbookbrings together a dazzling array of scholars to review the foundations of constructionist research, how it is put into practice in multiple disciplines, and where it may be headed in the future. The volume critically examines the analytic frameworks, strategies of inquiry, and methodological choices that together form the mosaic of contemporary constructionism, making it an authoritative reference for anyone interested in conducting research in a constructionist vein.

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James A. Holstein (PhD, University of Michigan) is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University. His research and publications have addressed social problems, deviance and social control, family, and the self--all approached from an ethnomethodologically informed, constructionist perspective.

Jaber F. Gubrium (PhD, Wayne State University) is Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has had a long-standing program of research on the social organization of care in human services institutions and pioneered in the reconceptualization of qualitative methods and the development of narrative analysis. Dr. Gubrium has published widely on aging, the life course, medicalization, and representational practice in therapeutic context.

As collaborators for 20 years, Drs. Holstein and Gubrium have developed a distinctive constructionist approach to everyday life in a variety of coauthored and coedited projects.

Introduction
The Constructionist Mosaic
Foundations and Historical Context
The Philosophical Foundations of Constructionist Research
Historical Development and Defining Issues of Constructionist Inquiry
Constructionism across the Disciplines
Constructionism in Anthropology
Social Constructionist Perspectives in Communication Research
Educational Constructionisms
Social Constructionism in Management and Organization Studies
Critical Constructionism in Nursing Research
Social Construction and Psychological Inquiry
Social Constructions in the Study of Public Policy
Social Constructionism in Science and Technology Studies
Constructionism in Sociology
The Scope of Constructionist Inquiry
Foucauldian Constructionism
Discursive Constructionism
Narrative Constructionist Inquiry
Interactional Constructionism
Claimsmaking, Culture, and the Media in the Social Construction Process
Strict and Contextual Constructionism in the Sociology of Deviance and Social Problems
Strategies and Techniques
Constructionist Impulses in Ethnographic Fieldwork
Constructionism and the Grounded Theory Method
Constructionism and Discourse Analysis
A Social Constructionist Framing of the Research Interview
Autoethnography as Constructionist Project
Documents, Texts, and Archives in Constructionist Research
The Social Construction of What?
The Constructed Body
The Social Construction of Emotion
Constructing Gender: The Dancer and the Dance
The Construction of Sex and Sexualities
The Diverse Construction of Race and Ethnicity
Constructions of Medical Knowledge
Constructing Therapy and Its Outcomes
Constructionist Themes in the Historiography of the Nation
Continuing Challenges
The Reality of Social Constructions
Can Constructionism Be Critical
Feminism and Constructionism
Institutional Ethnography and Constructionism
Ethnomethodology as a Provocation to Constructionism
Saving Social Construction: Contributions from Cultural Studies
Writing Culture, Holism, and the Partialities of Ethnographic Inquiry
Constructionist Research and Globalization
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Handbook of Constructionist Research

Handbook of Constructionist Research

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