The articles in this issue represent a broad range of positions that nonetheless coalesce into a set of clearly defined but contested claims concerning the ritual of debate, the realism-social constructionism divide, and the relational nature of human sociality. I foreground these issues by contextualizing the question of academic debate and historicizing the social constructionist movement. Much remains to be done to understand the psychological and moral dimensions of social and personal being as these are articulated in the social constructionist literature, not least of which involves understanding the `double participation' of the professional in the world.
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Gergen, K.J. (2001). Construction in contention: Toward consequential resolutions. Theory & Psychology, 11, 419-432.
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Mannheim, K. (1936). Ideology and utopia. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
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Shotter, J. & Lannamann, J.W. (2002). The situation of social constructionism: Its `imprisonment' within the ritual of theory-criticism-and-debate. Theory & Psychology, 12, 577-609.
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Stam, H. J. (2001). Introduction: Social constructionism and its critics. Theory & Psychology, 11, 291-296.
