To start my reflection on the Gergen’s (2009) chapters 1-2 of Invitation on social construction, I would like to share my story. Two years ago I made a difficult decision to move to the United Stated from Eastern Europe and to start over my life in a new unknown cultural environment. I was looking forward to the great adventure and prepared myself for the challenges I could potentially anticipate. I had a lot of professional and life experience. I already built a bright career at home, I traveled a lot around the globe and felt assertive and resolute in dealing with obstacles that could appear in my new social reality. But singular essence of my experience appeared to be not in the field of materialistic and rational day
To start my reflection on the Gergen’s (2009) chapters 1-2 of Invitation on social construction, I would like to share my story. Two years ago I made a difficult decision to move to the United Stated from Eastern Europe and to start over my life in a new unknown cultural environment. I was looking forward to the great adventure and prepared myself for the challenges I could potentially anticipate. I had a lot of professional and life experience. I already built a bright career at home, I traveled a lot around the globe and felt assertive and resolute in dealing with obstacles that could appear in my new social reality. But singular essence of my experience appeared to be not in the field of materialistic and rational day