The Construction Of Reality In The Child

The Construction Of Reality In The Child
Author: Jean Piaget
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2013-07-04
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1136316949

This is Volume XX of thirty-two in the Developmental Psychology series. Initially published in 1954, in Piaget’s words the study of sensorimotor or practical intelligence in the first two years of development has taught us how the child, at first directly assimilating the external environment to his own activity, later, in order to extend this assimilation, forms an increasing number of schemata which are both more mobile and better able to inter-coordinate. This study looks at the second part of evolution of sensorimotor intelligence, as the description of behavior no longer suffices to account for these new products of intellectual activity; it is the subject’s own interpretation of things which we must now try to analyze.

The Social Construction of Reality

The Social Construction of Reality
Author: Peter L. Berger
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2011-04-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1453215468

A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced “a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally” (George Simpson, American Sociological Review). In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and Luckmann go beyond intellectual history and focus on commonsense, everyday knowledge—the proverbs, morals, values, and beliefs shared among ordinary people. When first published in 1966, this systematic, theoretical treatise introduced the term social construction,effectively creating a new thought and transforming Western philosophy.

The Construction of Social Reality

The Construction of Social Reality
Author: John R. Searle
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2010-05-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1439108366

This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a ‘five-pound note’ with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch. In The Construction of Social Reality, eminent philosopher John Searle examines the structure of social reality (or those portions of the world that are facts only by human agreement, such as money, marriage, property, and government), and contrasts it to a brute reality that is independent of human agreement. Searle shows that brute reality provides the indisputable foundation for all social reality, and that social reality, while very real, is maintained by nothing more than custom and habit.

The Construction Of Reality In The Child

The Construction Of Reality In The Child
Author: Jean Piaget
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2013-07-04
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1136317015

This is Volume XX of thirty-two in the Developmental Psychology series. Initially published in 1954, in Piaget’s words the study of sensorimotor or practical intelligence in the first two years of development has taught us how the child, at first directly assimilating the external environment to his own activity, later, in order to extend this assimilation, forms an increasing number of schemata which are both more mobile and better able to inter-coordinate. This study looks at the second part of evolution of sensorimotor intelligence, as the description of behavior no longer suffices to account for these new products of intellectual activity; it is the subject’s own interpretation of things which we must now try to analyze.

Social Referencing and the Social Construction of Reality in Infancy

Social Referencing and the Social Construction of Reality in Infancy
Author: S. Feinman
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2013-06-29
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1489924620

Integrating the perspectives of a number of disciplines, this work examines social referencing in infants within the broader contexts of cognition, social relations, and human society as a whole.

Piaget's Construction of the Child's Reality

Piaget's Construction of the Child's Reality
Author: Susan Sugarman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1987
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780521379670

This book, first published in 1988, provides a conceptual critique of six of Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget's central, earlier works.

The Social Construction of What?

The Social Construction of What?
Author: Ian Hacking
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1999-05-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780674812000

Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Ian Hacking’s book explores an array of examples to reveal the deep issues underlying contentious accounts of reality—especially regarding the status of the natural sciences.

Play, Dreams And Imitation In Childhood

Play, Dreams And Imitation In Childhood
Author: Piaget, Jean
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2013-07-04
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1136318119

First published in 1999. This volume is the third of a series devoted to the first years of the child’s development, the two others being concerned with the beginnings of intelligence and the child’s construction of reality (La naissance de intelligence chez Venfant and La construction du réel chez Venfant). Although this book contains frequent references to the two other volumes, which deal with the same three children and study the relationships between their mental activities, it nevertheless constitutes in itself an independent and complete study

Representing Reality

Representing Reality
Author: Jonathan Potter
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1996-08-28
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780803984110

`This is an admirable book which can be recommended to students with confidence, and is likely also to become an indispensable source of reference for those researching fact construction' - Discourse & Society How is reality manufactured? The idea of social construction has become a commonplace of much social research, yet precisely what is constructed, and how, and even what constructionism means, is often unclear or taken for granted. In this major work, Jonathan Potter offers a fascinating tour of the central themes raised by these questions. Representing Reality overviews the different traditions in constructionist thought. Points are illustrated throughout with