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Irony and Origami

Nottingham Trent University, UK, nigel.edley{at}ntu.ac.uk

Unfolding Social Constructionism is a book that stands as a testimony to the growing influence of social constructionism right across the social sciences. Gone are the days when it was just a voice from the margins—now it is a force to be reckoned with. Here Hibberd locks horns with social constructionism’s most pivotal character: Kenneth Gergen. In a careful review of his work, she dissects the key components of constructionism’s meta-theory, and she also considers (and dismisses) some of the more common lines of critique. Yet for all her sophistication, Hibberd misses (or refuses?) something very simple—that her own critique is a view from somewhere. She simply asserts realist epistemology as the truth, without for one moment seeing the irony of this assertion (from a social constructionist perspective, that is). I put her straight....

Key Words: social constructionism • irony • realism • ontology • epistemology

Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 37, No. 1, 100-104 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0048393106296577


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