Social constructionism
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Social constructionism is a view in sociology, social ontology, in addition to communication theory which proposes that there arekinds of facts which, rather than depending on physical reality, instead depend on the dual-lane ways of thinking about and representing a world that groups of people introducing collaboratively. The abstraction centers on the notion that meanings are developed in coordination with others rather than separately by regarded and transmitted separately. individual. It has often been characterised as neo-Marxian or also as a neo-Kantian theory, in that social constructionism replaces the transcendental sent with a concept of society that is at the same time descriptive and normative.
While some social constructs are obvious, for exemplification money or the concept of currency, in that people develope agreed to administer it importance/value, others are controversial and hotly debated, such(a) as the concept of self/self-identity. This articulates the view that people in society produce believe ideas or concepts that may not exist without the existence of people or language to validate those concepts.
There is weak and strong social constructionism. Weak social constructionism relies on brute facts – facts that are non socially constructed, such(a) as, arguably, facts approximately physical particles – or institutional facts which are formed from social conventions.
It has been objected that strong social constructionism undermines the foundation of science as the pursuit of objectivity and, as a theory, defies any try at falsifying it.