We dedicate this page to dissertations/theses based upon social constructionist ideas. Many new scholars from around the world are finding intriguing and innovative ways to employ social constructionism as the substantive focus of their work, as a guide to methodological designs, or as an organizing framework for the entire dissertation/thesis enterprise.

Posting entire dissertations/theses in PDF format on this site provides a worldwide platform for others to read, appreciate, and build upon significant achievements in social constructionist scholarship. We hope these "noteworthy dissertations" will stimulate networking conversations among all who read them. Authors of these dissertations have granted the Taos Institute non-exclusive rights to post their dissertations on its website in a PDF format. Please use correct citation when quoting from any of these documents.

If you have any questions about this page or would like to submit a dissertation for consideration on this site, contact Dan Wulff at dwulff@ucalgary.ca

Keith Paul Bahde
Riding the Whitewater: A Social Constructionist Approach to the Mergers and Acquisitions Integration Process and the Role of the Integration Manager
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Shari J. Couture
Moving Forward: Therapy with an Adolescent and his Family
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Art Dewulf
Issue framing in multi-actor contexts. How people make sense of issues through negotiating meaning, enacting discourse and doing differences
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Karen Frewin
Theorising 'Self': Postructuralist Interpretations of Self Construction and Psychotherapy
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Gerardo Gacharná
Diferencias Naturales ­ Diferencias Sociales: Construcciones Sociales en torno a la Discapacidad
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Jackie Glasgow
An Appreciative Inquiry Case Study: Recognizing the Positive Core of Teachers in a Low SES Elementary School that Met Standard of Excellence
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Susan G. Goldberg
The Social Construction of BiPolar Disorder: The Interrelationship Between Societal and Individual Meanings
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J. Christopher Hall
Social Constructionism: A Unifying Metaperspective For Social Work
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Sean Patrick Hatt
ADHD in Black and White:A Comparative Inquiry in Narrative and Photographs
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Stephen Loftus
Language in Clinical Reasoning: Learning and Using the Language of Collective Clinical Decision Making
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Daniel K. Saint
The Firm as a Nexus of Relationships: Toward a New Story of Corporate Purpose
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Teresa L. San Martin
Director of Elementary Education/District Assessments for Maize Unified School District 266, Maize, KS
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Olga Sutherland, M.A.
Therapeutic Collaboration: Conversation Analysis of Couple Therapy
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Rita Marie Valade
Participatory Action Research with Adults with Mental Retardation: "Oh My God! Look Out World!"
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Anne Hedvig Vedeler
Do you hear me? About therapeutic listening, creating space for voices to emerge and to be heard. Dialogical Action Research
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Ilene Wasserman
Discursive Processes that Foster Dialogic Moments: Transformation in the Engagement of Social Identity Group Differences in Dialogue
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Dona J. Witten
Psychosocial factors that bind adults in a long-term, spontaneous group process: A grounded theory inquiry
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Jeffrey Zacko-Smith, Ed.D.
The Leader Label: Using Social Constructionism and Metaphor to Influence the Leadership Perceptions of Graduate Business and Public Adminstration Students
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Don Zeman, D.C., M.Sc.
Facilitating Conversations about Sexuality between Minority Sexuality Athletes
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