social constructionism

English - Turkish

Definition of social constructionism in English Turkish dictionary

sosyal inşacılık

Sosyal yapılandırmacılık

sosyal inşaacılık

sosyal yapılanma

English - English

Definition of social constructionism in English English dictionary

Social constructionism and social constructivism are sociological theories of knowledge that consider how social phenomena or objects of consciousness develop in social contexts. Within constructionist thought, a social construction (social construct) is a concept or practice that is the construct (or artifact) of a particular group. When we say that something is socially constructed, we are focusing on its dependence on contingent variables of our social selves rather than any inherent quality that it possesses in itself. Thus our notion of a "cousin," what this terms includes and doesn't include and what it means to us does not exist "out there" in the world, but only in and through the social instutitions that give it meaning within a culture. The underlying assumptions on which social constructivism is typically seen to be based are reality, knowledge, and learning

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so·cial con·struc·tion·i·sm