ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the nature of the person within social constructionism and focusses further upon the implications of those forms of social constructionism that emphasise the importance of dialogue and social interaction. Narrative psychology is also focused in the way that experience is psychologically organised. The idea of subject positions is utilised by those working within both macro and micro forms of social constructionism, within macro social constructionism the emphasis is upon the constitutive force of the subject positions carried by particular discourses, within micro social constructionism it is upon the ability of the person to negotiate subject positions within interactions. Positioning theory outlines the person as a moral actor, someone whose actions are regulated by the rights and duties attached to the positions they currently occupy in an interaction. Discursive psychology re-frames what 'people normally think of as the content of the person and locates it in the public, social realm of interpersonal interaction.
