Essay Positions

I decided to choose the positions of:

Pragmatism: Kelly (Expectation, Personal Construct Psychology) : Rep grid / Self Characterisation

Critical/Transformative: Habermas (System/lifeworld), Fairclough (Ideology), Butler (Performativity) and Deleuze (re Whole systems/Emergence)
Tool:  (Critical Discourse Analysis/Critical Language Study)

Constructivism: Derrida- Deconstruction

(using Cresswell's Research Catagories (from reading list)

why? because each of the selected  authors are difficult to place within the narrower catagories from the lecture series:

This lead however to a conflict size: 4000 words  (I have 15000)

So I have to choose between those covered :

Positivism (No) ( has been replaced by post positivism)

Phenomenology (no) although Kelly has been placed here

Structuralism - (?) Kelly has been placed here

Post Structuralism ((YES)  - Derrida, (Kelly is also considered a constructivist) - Deconstruction

Post Marxism (YES) - Habermas/Deleuze/Butler - Critical Discourse Analysis


I will state in my essay that I do not consider the catagory system/taxonomy an adequate set of catagories  in which to place these authors...

to quote Derrida "can I say what is my position? I can say what I am stating now"