Abstract:The authors analyze selected contemporary Polish academic publications on psychology in order to demonstrate how the concept of gender is constructed in them. They refer to the premises of Kenneth Gergen’s social constructionism, and Ludwik Fleck’s description of connections in common knowledge. In presenting the bases of constructionist ideas, they concentrate on the process of creating knowledge in the social sciences, its interaction with common knowledge, and the significance of gender categories. They als… Show more
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