Social constructionism is a sociological framework holding that many features of social reality, concepts, beliefs, norms and values, are formed through continuous interactions and negotiations among society's members rather than through empirical observation of physical reality, and are collectively formulated, sustained and reshaped by the social contexts in which they exist. The field traces its roots to symbolic interactionism and phenomenology, and was established in its modern American form by Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann's 1966 book The Social Construction of Reality, which held that people interact on the shared understanding that their perceptions of everyday life are held in common, a common knowledge of reality that is in turn reinforced by the very interactions built on it.
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Core ClaimSourced to the subject's own accountCategories and meanings that appear natural or given, gender roles, race and mental illness among them, are instead produced and sustained through ongoing social interaction and are therefore historically and culturally variable rather than fixed features of the physical world. 1 Origin YearSourced to the subject's own account Disciplinary HomeSourced to the subject's own account Connections
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Peter L. Berger co-authored The Social Construction of Reality (1966) with Thomas Luckmann, the founding statement of social constructionism.
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Social constructionism traces its roots to symbolic interactionism and phenomenology.
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Social constructionism is a term used in sociology, social ontology, and communication theory.
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- Associated With: Symbolic Interactionism
Developed By: Peter L. Berger, Article body sentence quoted
Social constructionism has been rooted in "symbolic interactionism" and "phenomenology." With Berger and Luckmann's The Social Construction of Reality published in 1966, this concept found its hold.
Developed By: Thomas Luckmann, Article body sentence quoted
Social constructionism has been rooted in "symbolic interactionism" and "phenomenology." With Berger and Luckmann's The Social Construction of Reality published in 1966, this concept found its hold.
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As a work about the sociology of knowledge, influenced by the work of Alfred Schütz, The Social Construction of Reality introduced the term social construction and influenced the establishment of the field of social constructionism.
Wikipedia: Karin Knorr Cetina
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Karin Knorr Cetina (also Karin Knorr-Cetina) (born 19 July 1944 in Graz, Austria) is an Austrian sociologist well known for her work on epistemology and social constructionism, summarized in the books The Manufacture of Knowledge: An Essay on the Constructivist and Contextual Nature of Science (1981) and Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge (1999).
Anne Fausto-Sterling (Wikipedia)
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Anne Fausto-Sterling (née Sterling; born July 30, 1944) is an American sexologist who has written extensively on the social construction of gender, sexual identity, gender identity, gender roles, and intersexuality.
Judith Lorber (Wikipedia)
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She is a foundational theorist of social construction of gender difference and has played a vital role in the formation and transformation of gender studies.
Peter L. Berger (Wikipedia)
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Berger is arguably best known for his book, co-authored with Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (New York, 1966), which is considered one of the most influential texts in the sociology of knowledge and played a central role in the development of social constructionism.
Steve Woolgar (Wikipedia)
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Woolgar espouses a radically relativist and constructionist position.
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