1996/02/01 by Ian Burkitt · 2 citations
Psychology · #Cognitive and psychological constructs research #Social Representations and Identity #Language, Metaphor, and Cognition #Social constructionism #Ontology #Construct (python library) #Constructionism #Epistemology #Narrative #Strict constructionism #Individualism #Psychology #Sociology #Social psychology #Computer science #Philosophy #Political science #Linguistics
paper · doi:10.1177/0959354396061005
openalex publication_date 1996/02/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Mancuso's (1996) article is to be welcomed for its attempt to bring together social constructionism, personal construct theory and narrative psychology. Whilst the underlying tendency of the three approaches-to view the text as self-enclosed and constitutive of reality-is drawn out well, the differences between them are underplayed. Most significantly, these include the difference between the individualist ontology in Mancuso's version of personal construct theory and the social ontology that is the basis of social constructionism. The fact that Mancuso ignores these differences in ontology ultimately thwarts his commendable aim of reintroducing issues of individual psychology into a constructionist framework.