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 | Black Women’s Intellectual Traditions: Speaking Their Minds
edited by Kristin B. Waters and Carol B. Conaway
University of Vermont Press, 2007
excerpt from book cover: An astonishing wealth of literary and intellectual work by nineteenth-century black women is being rediscovered and restored to print in scholarly and popular editions. In this landmark edited collection, sophisticated commentary on this rich body of work chronicles a powerful and interwoven legacy of activism based in social and political theories that helped shape the history of North America. The book meticulously reclaims this American legacy, providing a collection of critical analyses of the primary sources and their vital traditions. |
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 | The Social Construction of Organization
edited by Dian Marie Hosking and Sheila McNamee
Copenhagen Business School Press, 2006
excerpt from book jacket: This volume brings together voices of social construction that connect most strongly with post-modern and post-structuralist themes, reflect 'new psychology' and centre processes as they make people and worlds. Our intention is not to pronounce some orthodoxy but rather to assist those who are relatively new to what is a huge, ever growing, multi-disciplinary field where 'social construction' means many different things.
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 | Therapy as Social Construction
edited by Sheila McNamee and Kenneth Gergen
Sage Publications, 1992
excerpt from book jacket: “This volume explores the new possibilities for the therapeutic process of adopting a social constructionist perspective. The starting point for all the contributors is a concern with socially constructed "texts." On one hand, our senses of self, identity, and life purpose are fundamentally, socially and culturally embedded. On the other, no single cultural script is all powerful. In social constructionist therapy, a key process is the co-creation by therapists and clients of new, more satisfactory "stories," in ways which nevertheless recognize their social, relational character…The first part of the book looks at the theoretical basis for social constructionist therapy, including the implications for client-therapist relationships. Authors then explore various approaches in practice…the final section presents an exhilarating mix of overview, self-critique, and an agenda for the future." --C. L.Kleinke, University of Alaska, Anchorage |
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 | Relational Responsibility: Resources for Sustainable Dialogue
edited by Sheila McNamee and Kenneth Gergen
Sage Publications, 1998
excerpt from book cover: The tradition of individual responsibility where individuals deliberate, morally evaluate, and then decide on a course of action is dear to the heart of Western ethical and legal codes and informs many contemporary practices of therapy, education, and organizational life. It also typically isolates, alienates, and ultimately invites the eradication of the other''s step toward non-meaning. A vast range of current thinking places this view of the independently responsible individual in strong question. In Relational Responsibility, the authors attempt to transform the concept of responsibility in such a way that the relational process replaces the individual as the central concern. This volume invites practices that replace alienation and isolation with meaning-building dialogue. |
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 | No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior
by Joshua Meyrowitz
Oxford University Press, 2005
excerpt from book jacket: How has television affected our everyday experience? This question has generated endless arguments and speculations, but no thinker has addressed the issue with such force and originality as Joshua Meyrowitz. Advancing a daring and sophisticated theory, Meyrowitz shows how television and other electronic media create new social situations that are no longer shaped by where we are or who is "with" us. While other media experts have limited the debate to program content, Meyrowitz focuses on the ways in which television has rearranged "who knows what about whom," making it impossible for us to behave with each other in traditional ways. He shows how television has lifted many of the veils of secrecy between children and adults, men and women, and politicians and average citizens. The result is a series of revolutionary changes, including the blurring of age, gender, and authority distinctions. |
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