social constructionismn.
/ˌsəʊʃl kənˈstrʌkʃn̩ɪz(ə)m/, /ˌsəʊʃl kənˈstrʌkʃənɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈˌsoʊʃ(ə)l kənˈstrəkʃəˌnɪz(ə)m/ Chiefly Sociology.
A theoretical approach which regards certain aspects of human experience and knowledge as originating within and cultivated by society or a particular social group, rather than existing inherently or naturally. Cf. social construct n.
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society > society and the community > study of society > [noun] > other branches
social history1814
social geography1828
social dynamics1843
social statics1843
socio-economics1893
genetics1896
biosociology1897
social engineering1899
social morphology1899
psychosociology1902
socionomics1902
political sociology1905
sociobiology1912
social planning1913
social constructionist1925
futurology1946
sociobiology1946
structural anthropology1950
squalorology1961
proxemics1963
future research1969
women's studies1969
future study1971
social constructionism1976
social constructivism1981
1976 Jrnl. Criminal Law & Criminol. 67 125/2 He outlines basic assumptions and implications of three modes of criminological thought: positivism, social constructionism and phenomenologism.
1987 Guardian (Nexis) 4 May Maybe it was this cultural divorce from natural scientific practice which has made Left theoreticians..so vulnerable to fluctuating theoretical fashions; from the scientism of Althusser, through extreme social constructionism.
2004 J. Joseph & J. M. Roberts Realism, Disc. & Deconstruction i. 1 The authors attempt to embed discourse within the structured nature of the reality of the world and thereby stave off the worst excesses of social constructionism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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