Meaning in Action Constructions, Narratives, and Representations - Sugiman, Toshio; Gergen, Kenneth J.; Wagner, Wolfgang; Yamada, Yoko.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2008)
The Social Turn in the Science of Human Action -- The Social Turn in the Science of Human Action -- The Power of Meaning -- Reflections on the Diversity of Knowledge: Power and Dialogue in Representational Fields -- Discourse and Representation in the Construction of Witchcraft -- Culture, Psychotherapy, and the Diasporic Self as Transitoric Identity: A Reply to Social Constructionist and Postmodern Concepts of Narrative Psychotherapy -- Generative Inquiry in Therapy: From Problems to Creativity -- Constructing Trauma and Its Treatment: Knowledge, Power and Resistance -- Constructing Meaning in Everyday Life -- Moralities We Live by: Moral Focusing in the Context of Technological Change -- A Theory of Construction of Norm and Meaning: Osawa's Theory of Body -- The Transcendental Nature of Norms: Infants in Residential Nurseries and Child Adoption -- Using Social Knowledge: A Case Study of a Diarist's Meaning Making During World War II -- Narrative and Dialogue -- Twice-Told-Tales: Small Story Analysis and the Process of Identity Formation -- Human/Nature Narratives and Popular Films: Big, Bad, Bold, Beneficent, Bountiful, Beautiful and Bereft -- Opposite and Coexistent Dialogues: Repeated Voices and the Side-by-Side Position of Self and Other -- Narrative Mode of Thought in Disaster Damage Reduction: A Crossroad for Narrative and Gaming Approaches -- A Dialogical Perspective of Social Representations of Responsibility -- Action -- The Social and the Cultural: Where do They Meet? -- Moral Responsibility and Social Fiction -- Social Psychology and Literature: Toward Possible Correspondence -- Historical Conflict and Resolution between Japan and China: Developing and Applying a Narrative Theory of History and Identity.
Keywords: Personality; Social psychology; Clinical psychology; Developmental psychology; Sociology; Education; Personality and Social Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Developmental Psychology; Sociology, general; Education, general