Social and Personal Constructs
- 1 February 1996
- journal article
- other
- Published by SAGE Publications in Theory & Psychology
- Vol. 6 (1) , 71-77
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354396061005
Abstract
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.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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