Mary M Gergen
Biographic Data
| ID | 163452 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary M Gergen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary M |
| FAMILY NAME | Gergen |
| SIGNATURE | GERGEN M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Penn State University, Delaware County Campus |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 109 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Living the Post-University Life: Academics Talk About Retirement
This panel, which took place at International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry in May 2016, examines the experiences of five scholars who have retired from university life and the responses to the panel by two scholars anticipating that transition. Panelists discuss how and when they decided to retire; the role of the university, department, and profession in their post-university lives; and the kinds of activities and connections that sustain the…
Creative research methods in the social sciences: A practical guide
Mischief, Mystery, and Moments That Matter: Vistas of Performative Inquiry
Here we challenge the traditional separation of science and art and demonstrate significant ways in which the social sciences can be enriched through performative inquiry. We begin with a brief commentary on philosophic work that detaches representation from observation. In effect, there is no privileged (in principal, accurate, neutral, or objective) representation of a given observation. We then explore the potentials of expanding the repertoir…
Toward a New Psychology of Gender
Toward a New Psychology of Gender: A Reader
Social Psychology
Ken Gergen as History: Some Personal Reflections
Narrative tensions: Perilous and productive
We focus on four major tensions pervading much narrative inquiry to date, tensions that threaten to divide the field into alienated enclaves. Of specific concern are psychological vs. social explanations of narrative, structural vs. process orientations to research, approaches that celebrate experience vs. those that textually deconstruct experience, and accounts that center on singularity of self-narratives vs. incoherent multiplicity. Finally, …
Performative Sozialwissenschaft
Der Begriff "performativ" stammt aus J.L. Austins Werk "How to do Things with Words" (1962) [dt. "Zur Theorie der Sprechakte"], in welchem er auf die Art und Weise Bezug nimmt, wie Äußerungen über die Vermittlung von Inhalt hinaus mannigfaltige soziale Funktionen erfüllen. Performative Sozialforschung umfasst die Verwendung verschiedener Formen künstlerischer Darstellung in der Durchführung von wissenschaftlichen Projekten (M. Gergen 2001), die M…
Framing Lives: Therapy with Women of a “Certain Age”
Women face powerful and negative stereotypes of who they will become as they age. They can either fight against them or they can succumb. From a social constructionist position, one may question any given formulation of reality, including the nature of aging. Because no image of aging is compulsory, there are ways of resisting the tide of negativity associated with it. Combating these negative stereotypes are the increasing numbers of older peopl…
Social Construction and Research Methodology
Narratives in action
In various professional fields today, a profusion of practices are inspired by or draw sustenance from narrative inquiry; similarly, narrative inquiry must attend to these practices as they are vital to its future. Ultimately a full fledged dialogue between scholars and practitioners is to be sought. We review three major domains in which narratives are in action: psychotherapy, organizational change, and conflict reduction. We conclude by taking…
Reflections: Between Narcissus and Dorian Grey
What Is This Thing Called Love? Emotional Scenarios in Historical Perspective
From a social-constructionist standpoint, emotional expressions are constitu-ents of lived narratives, and gain their meaning from their position within these narratives. These special forms of narrative, termed emotional scenarios , are themselves lodged within a broader cultural and historical landscape. This article compares major features of romantic love scenarios as they have changed from 19th century romanticist culture, through 20th centu…
Hearts and bonds: Resisting classification and closure
Responds to criticisms made by H. Peskin (see record 1993-45259-001) of the article by Stroebe et al (see record 1993-05637-001). Stroebe et al assert that their representation of J. Bowlby's (1980) conception of grief as lending itself to a modernist zeitgeist is an accurate one and that Peskin's views are idiosyncratic. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
Hearts and bonds: Resisting classification and closure
Broken hearts or broken bonds: Love and death in historical perspective
Psychological theories and practices frequently neglect the extent to which their subject matter is historically and culturally defined. This issue is explored in the context of theories and therapies related to bereavement. Contemporary orientations emphasize the importance of breaking bonds with the deceased and the return of survivors to autonomous lifestyles. Placing the orientation in cultural and historical context reveals that it is largel…
Finished At 40: Women's Development within the Patriarchy
Psychological theories of women's lives in middle age and beyond are restricted, negative, and scarce. An overview of women's adult development in textbooks and the professional literature indicates that (a) the prevailing focus of concern is the woman as a biological creature, especially as a mother; (b) the proposed lifecycle trajectory is one in which the woman's life goes into decline after approximately age 40; and (c) little attention is pa…
Narrative and the Self as Relationship
The Construction of the Social World
The women's liberation movement: Attitudes and action1
Individual Orientations to Prosocial Behavior 1
Findings relating personality and demographic variables to prosocial behavior are reviewed. Original research results are then presented. These results show that different personal dispositions are related to various forms of prosocial behavior in different ways. The traditional search for general correlates of prosocial behavior is viewed as shortsighted. Attention is drawn to the relation of situational payoffs to personal dispositions, interac…
Broken hearts or broken bonds: Love and death in historical perspective
Psychological theories and practices frequently neglect the extent to which their subject matter is historically and culturally defined. This issue is explored in the context of theories and therapies related to bereavement. Contemporary orientations emphasize the importance of breaking bonds with the deceased and the return of survivors to autonomous lifestyles. Placing the orientation in cultural and historical context reveals that it is largel…
Narratives in action
In various professional fields today, a profusion of practices are inspired by or draw sustenance from narrative inquiry; similarly, narrative inquiry must attend to these practices as they are vital to its future. Ultimately a full fledged dialogue between scholars and practitioners is to be sought. We review three major domains in which narratives are in action: psychotherapy, organizational change, and conflict reduction. We conclude by taking…
Finished At 40: Women's Development within the Patriarchy
Psychological theories of women's lives in middle age and beyond are restricted, negative, and scarce. An overview of women's adult development in textbooks and the professional literature indicates that (a) the prevailing focus of concern is the woman as a biological creature, especially as a mother; (b) the proposed lifecycle trajectory is one in which the woman's life goes into decline after approximately age 40; and (c) little attention is pa…
Individual Orientations to Prosocial Behavior 1
Findings relating personality and demographic variables to prosocial behavior are reviewed. Original research results are then presented. These results show that different personal dispositions are related to various forms of prosocial behavior in different ways. The traditional search for general correlates of prosocial behavior is viewed as shortsighted. Attention is drawn to the relation of situational payoffs to personal dispositions, interac…
Living the Post-University Life: Academics Talk About Retirement
This panel, which took place at International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry in May 2016, examines the experiences of five scholars who have retired from university life and the responses to the panel by two scholars anticipating that transition. Panelists discuss how and when they decided to retire; the role of the university, department, and profession in their post-university lives; and the kinds of activities and connections that sustain the…
Mischief, Mystery, and Moments That Matter: Vistas of Performative Inquiry
Here we challenge the traditional separation of science and art and demonstrate significant ways in which the social sciences can be enriched through performative inquiry. We begin with a brief commentary on philosophic work that detaches representation from observation. In effect, there is no privileged (in principal, accurate, neutral, or objective) representation of a given observation. We then explore the potentials of expanding the repertoir…
Framing Lives: Therapy with Women of a “Certain Age”
Women face powerful and negative stereotypes of who they will become as they age. They can either fight against them or they can succumb. From a social constructionist position, one may question any given formulation of reality, including the nature of aging. Because no image of aging is compulsory, there are ways of resisting the tide of negativity associated with it. Combating these negative stereotypes are the increasing numbers of older peopl…
Narrative tensions: Perilous and productive
We focus on four major tensions pervading much narrative inquiry to date, tensions that threaten to divide the field into alienated enclaves. Of specific concern are psychological vs. social explanations of narrative, structural vs. process orientations to research, approaches that celebrate experience vs. those that textually deconstruct experience, and accounts that center on singularity of self-narratives vs. incoherent multiplicity. Finally, …
Individual Orientations to Prosocial Behavior 1
Findings relating personality and demographic variables to prosocial behavior are reviewed. Original research results are then presented. These results show that different personal dispositions are related to various forms of prosocial behavior in different ways. The traditional search for general correlates of prosocial behavior is viewed as shortsighted. Attention is drawn to the relation of situational payoffs to personal dispositions, interac…
The women's liberation movement: Attitudes and action1
The Construction of the Social World
Narrative and the Self as Relationship
Finished At 40: Women's Development within the Patriarchy
Psychological theories of women's lives in middle age and beyond are restricted, negative, and scarce. An overview of women's adult development in textbooks and the professional literature indicates that (a) the prevailing focus of concern is the woman as a biological creature, especially as a mother; (b) the proposed lifecycle trajectory is one in which the woman's life goes into decline after approximately age 40; and (c) little attention is pa…
Broken hearts or broken bonds: Love and death in historical perspective
Psychological theories and practices frequently neglect the extent to which their subject matter is historically and culturally defined. This issue is explored in the context of theories and therapies related to bereavement. Contemporary orientations emphasize the importance of breaking bonds with the deceased and the return of survivors to autonomous lifestyles. Placing the orientation in cultural and historical context reveals that it is largel…
Hearts and bonds: Resisting classification and closure
Responds to criticisms made by H. Peskin (see record 1993-45259-001) of the article by Stroebe et al (see record 1993-05637-001). Stroebe et al assert that their representation of J. Bowlby's (1980) conception of grief as lending itself to a modernist zeitgeist is an accurate one and that Peskin's views are idiosyncratic. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
Hearts and bonds: Resisting classification and closure
What Is This Thing Called Love? Emotional Scenarios in Historical Perspective
From a social-constructionist standpoint, emotional expressions are constitu-ents of lived narratives, and gain their meaning from their position within these narratives. These special forms of narrative, termed emotional scenarios , are themselves lodged within a broader cultural and historical landscape. This article compares major features of romantic love scenarios as they have changed from 19th century romanticist culture, through 20th centu…
Reflections: Between Narcissus and Dorian Grey
Narratives in action
In various professional fields today, a profusion of practices are inspired by or draw sustenance from narrative inquiry; similarly, narrative inquiry must attend to these practices as they are vital to its future. Ultimately a full fledged dialogue between scholars and practitioners is to be sought. We review three major domains in which narratives are in action: psychotherapy, organizational change, and conflict reduction. We conclude by taking…
Social Construction and Research Methodology
Framing Lives: Therapy with Women of a “Certain Age”
Women face powerful and negative stereotypes of who they will become as they age. They can either fight against them or they can succumb. From a social constructionist position, one may question any given formulation of reality, including the nature of aging. Because no image of aging is compulsory, there are ways of resisting the tide of negativity associated with it. Combating these negative stereotypes are the increasing numbers of older peopl…
Performative Sozialwissenschaft
Der Begriff "performativ" stammt aus J.L. Austins Werk "How to do Things with Words" (1962) [dt. "Zur Theorie der Sprechakte"], in welchem er auf die Art und Weise Bezug nimmt, wie Äußerungen über die Vermittlung von Inhalt hinaus mannigfaltige soziale Funktionen erfüllen. Performative Sozialforschung umfasst die Verwendung verschiedener Formen künstlerischer Darstellung in der Durchführung von wissenschaftlichen Projekten (M. Gergen 2001), die M…
Ken Gergen as History: Some Personal Reflections
Narrative tensions: Perilous and productive
We focus on four major tensions pervading much narrative inquiry to date, tensions that threaten to divide the field into alienated enclaves. Of specific concern are psychological vs. social explanations of narrative, structural vs. process orientations to research, approaches that celebrate experience vs. those that textually deconstruct experience, and accounts that center on singularity of self-narratives vs. incoherent multiplicity. Finally, …
Social Psychology
Toward a New Psychology of Gender
Toward a New Psychology of Gender: A Reader
Mischief, Mystery, and Moments That Matter: Vistas of Performative Inquiry
Here we challenge the traditional separation of science and art and demonstrate significant ways in which the social sciences can be enriched through performative inquiry. We begin with a brief commentary on philosophic work that detaches representation from observation. In effect, there is no privileged (in principal, accurate, neutral, or objective) representation of a given observation. We then explore the potentials of expanding the repertoir…
Creative research methods in the social sciences: A practical guide
Living the Post-University Life: Academics Talk About Retirement
This panel, which took place at International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry in May 2016, examines the experiences of five scholars who have retired from university life and the responses to the panel by two scholars anticipating that transition. Panelists discuss how and when they decided to retire; the role of the university, department, and profession in their post-university lives; and the kinds of activities and connections that sustain the…
Psychology (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Narrative (5 works)