Parker and Shotter argue that the crisis in social psychology can no longer be seen as one which can be resolved within the discipline itself, but is rather one more deeply rooted in human society. This book should be of interest to students of pyschology, social science, and sociology, and those working in the area of language.

Product Description: In this compelling thought sparking book the author shows us the value of withiness-thinking as a fresh approach to both the familiar and new challenges of our daily lives. Through his fluency in the terrain of the dialogical he invites us, and his trains of thought tell us how, to think with so as to inquire into and approach these challenges in ways that increase the opportunity for never imagined possibilities of how we might act next...read more

Product Description: Conversational Realities Reloaded is a new edition of John Shotter's 1993 book Conversational Realities. Like the first edition, it contests the traditional scientific view that naturally occurring psychological and sociological realities of a systematic and structured kind are to be discovered underlying appearances...read more

Product Description: This new work looks at the dynamics of organizations from a social constructionist viewpoint, taking the organization as something that is constructed continuously through individual interactions with others, both within and without the organization.

Product Description: Organizational theorists talk a lot about organizational development. Although they can express themselves eloquently, too often the practitioner is not convinced by their talk. The authors of The End of Organization Theory? are in favor of the ‘doers’ doing most of the talking themselves...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This major book offers a comprehensive overview of key debates on subjectivity and the subject in psychological theory and practice. In addition to social construction's long engagement with social relations, this volume addresses questions of the body, technology, intersubjectivity, writing and investigative practices...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This imaginative and original book challenges the traditional scientific view that naturally occurring psychological and sociological `realities' are to be discovered underlying appearances. Instead, it claims that such orderly realities are both socially constructed and sustained within the context of people's disorderly, everyday conversational activities...read more

Product Description: Modern psychology promised to discover the true nature of man in its laboratories. But it hasn't. It has only investigated there what happens when men are led to behave as if they are rats, machines, information channels, etc. And we are now more bewildered than ever as to what we really are...read more