The seminar group I'm a part of is interesting as they want to get involved in as much as I do. It's nice that it is a smaller group of 3 and that theyunderstand that to do well you have to get involved as much as possible.
The seminar looked at 'personality clashes' and Tina asked us to write down a time which we believe we have experienced a 'personality clash' with someone, what happened and how it was resolved.
We then had to pass our problem to the other people in the seminar group who wrote advice for how they would have solved the 'personality clash'.
It was then explained that social constructionists would not believe in personality clashes. This is because when people accept a personality clash for the cause of a problem they are absolving themseleves of any responsibility to change the situation.
In simpler terms it is saying: "I am the way I am, he/she is the way he/she is".
For example, in my situation with a work colleague who was rude and unhelpful to myself for a short notice delivery, instead of viewing it as a personality clash, I should have questioned, why is MR X being awkward.
In that respect my answer would have been, Mr X is being awkward, becuase I have not given him enough notice to arrange a short notice delivery. Rather than blaming him for not being prepared, I should have done more to change the situation to get the result I wanted.
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