Realities and Relationships: Soundings in Social Construction

Another fine work by one of the world's leading post-modern theorists out of the social constructivist school. Gergen focuses on nature of interpersonal relationships in the modern day era in a book that equally intellectually stimulating and eminently readable. Readings on social constructivism are not for everyone. However, Gergen is worth experiencing in some way. Those who are familiar with him remember Gergen (Duke, PhD - Yale) as a prominent and highly cited social psychologist in the 1960 & 70s at Swarthmore College before moving into more theory in the 80s and 90s. His work is truly brilliant, accessible on most levels to the undergraduate but complex and insightful enough to make a Foucault or Virilio scratch his head momentarily before saying, "Ahhhh." The Saturated Self and Realties and Relationships are two of Gergen's most easily accessible yet deeply complex works on the nature of the modern world.