Editorial: A Conversation about Performative Social Science

Abstract: Conversing by e-mail and mediated by an imaginary cyber-moderator, two of the co-editors of this Special Issue on Performative Social Science (PSS) Mary GERGEN and Kip JONES, themselves pioneers of PSS, engage in conversation around such topics as creativity, skill and craft, outputs and outcomes, aesthetics, audience, evaluation, interpretation, scholarship, ambiguity, talking and doing, and inter-disciplinary collaborations. While GERGEN concludes that action is meaningful and rich in symbolic significance, JONES, like Norma DESMOND, speculates that PSS "is big; it's the pictures that got smaller". URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0802437. https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/376

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Editorial: A Conversation about Performative Social Science ; volume:9 ; number:2 ; day:31 ; month:05 ; year:2008 ; Forum qualitative Sozialforschung ; 9, Heft 2 (31.05.2008)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Gergen, Mary ; Jones, Kip

Further information

• DOI: 10.17169/fqs-9.2.376
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0802437
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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