Gergen articulates his own position, social constructionism,
which, he claims, represents a radical break with
both the exogenic and endogenic traditions. Rather than
a concern with an external world or an individual mind,
it commences with language. Knowledge is seen to reside
in a repository of linguistic artifacts, text, documents,
journals, and to be communicated through lectures, discussions,
overhead projections and the like, all of which
depend on language. How language is used depends upon
the processes of social interchange. Meaning is achieved
through social interdependence – “the coordinated efforts
of two or more persons”. Gergen writes