Meaning in Action

The Social Turn in the Science of Human Action T. Sugiman, K.J. Gergen, W. Wagner, and Y. Yamada Part I: The Power of Meaning 1 Refl ections on the Diversity of Knowledge: Power and Dialogue in Representational Fields S. Jovchelovitch 2 Discourse and Representation in the Construction of Witchcraft W. Wagner, A. Mecha, and M. do R. Carvalho 3 Culture, Psychotherapy, and the Diasporic Self as Transitoric Identity: A Reply to Social Constructionist and Postmodern Concepts of Narrative Psychotherapy B. Zielke and J. Straub 4 Generative Inquiry in Therapy: From Problems to Creativity D.F. Schnitman 5 Constructing Trauma and Its Treatment: Knowledge, Power and Resistance C. Quosh and K.J. Gergen Part II: Constructing Meaning in Everyday Life 6 Moralities We Live by: Moral Focusing in the Context of Technological Change N. Kronberger 7 A Theory of Construction of Norm and Meaning:Osawa's Theory of Body T. Sugiman 8 The Transcendental Nature of Norms: Infants in Residential Nurseries and Child Adoption A. Rakugi 9 Using Social Knowledge: A Case Study of a Diarist's Meaning Making During World War II T. Zittoun, A. Gillespie, F. Cornish, and E.L. Aveling Part III: Narrative and Dialogue 10 Twice-Told-Tales: Small Story Analysis and the Process of Identity Formation M. Bamberg 11 Human/Nature Narratives and Popular Films: Big, Bad, Bold, Benefi cent, Bountiful, Beautiful and Bereft M. Gergen 12 Opposite and Coexistent Dialogues: Repeated Voices and the Side-by-Side Position of Self and Other Y. Yamada 13 Narrative Mode of Thought in Disaster Damage Reduction: A Crossroad for Narrative and Gaming Approaches K. Yamori 14 A Dialogical Perspective of Social Representations of Responsibility I. Marková Part IV:Action 15 The Social and the Cultural: Where do They Meet? J. Valsiner 16 Moral Responsibility and Social Fiction T. Kozakai 17 Social Psychology and Literature: Toward Possible Correspondence A. Contarello 18 Historical Confl ict and Resolution between Japan and

Dr. phil. Wolfgang Wagner ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter der Hessischen Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung.