Ken Gergen - Introduction to Relational Practices

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Kenneth J. Gergen, Ph.D., is a founding member, President of the Taos Institute and Chair of the Board, and the Mustin Professor of Psychology at Swarthmore College. Gergen also serves as an Honorary Professor at the University of Buenos Aires. Gergen received his BA from Yale University and his PhD from Duke University, and has taught at Harvard University and Heidelberg University. He has been the recipient of two Fulbright research fellowships, the Geraldine Mao fellowship in Hong Kong, along with Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, and the Alexander Humboldt Stiftung. Gergen has also been the recipient of research grants from the National Science Foundation, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and the Barra Foundation. He has received honorary degrees from Tilburg University and Saybrook Institute, and is a member of the World Academy of Art and Science.
Gergen is a major figure in the development of social constructionist theory and its applications to practices of social change. He also lectures widely on contemporary issues in cultural life, including the self, technology, postmodernism, the civil society, organizational change, developments in psychotherapy, educational practices, aging, and political conflict. Gergen has published over 300 articles in journals, magazines and books, and his major books include Toward Transformation in Social Knowledge, The Saturated Self, Realities and Relationships, and An Invitation to Social Construction. With Mary Gergen, he publishes an electronic newsletter, Positive Aging (www.positiveaging.net) now distributed to 20,000 recipients.
Gergen has served as the President of two divisions of the American Psychological Association, the Division on Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, and on Psychology and the Arts. He has served on the editorial board of 35 journals, and as the Associate Editor of The American Psychologist and Theory and Psychology. He has also served as a consultant to Sandoz Pharmaceutical Company, Arthur D. Little, Inc, the National Academy of Science, Trans-World Airlines, Bio-Dynamics, and Knight, Gladieux & Smith, Inc.

[@psicologiajoseh]

Why intellectuals like him are not more mainstream instead of some of the reactionary and polarizing intellectual figures we've been having since the 2000s. I'm not saying that all the popular ones are so bad or that there aren't many valuable ones. But hey, how nice that on KZbin videos, podcasts, and among the bestsellers books there were more conversations from this perspective. Thanks for sharing this!

[@iranpeykar]

Unfortunately, that's a bi-product of science placing more emphasis on empiricism and logical positivist research (which might serve well in certain disciplines but have mostly misguided some other disciplines).

[@Saefudin_Saefudin_Educator]

I find it very interesting..Ken Gergen..respected Professor..

[@drreaganeliedithphd6526]

merci Dr Gergen. je suis prof et ce video est une bonne aude pour un papier de mes étudiants et étudiantes

[@Saefudin_Saefudin_Educator]

Could you please speak english... need to know your feeling..

[@damnwall]

I like his theory but there is too much of an assumption people will participate and cooperate to gain the necessary understanding of things to provide the answers he's hoping for.