Sociology and constructivist perspective: Sociological theory and constructivist meta-theory

Constructivist Grounded Theory?

I refer to and use as scholarly inspiration CHARMAZ's excellent article on constructivist grounded theory as a tool of getting to the fundamental issues on why grounded theory is not constructivist. I show that constructivist data, if it exists at all, is a very very small part of the data that grounded theory uses.

Medical Sociology and Sociological Theory

The Development of Constructivist Grounded Theory

Constructivist grounded theory is a popular method for research studies primarily in the disciplines of psychology, education, and nursing. In this article, the authors aim to locate the roots of constructivist grounded theory and then trace its development. They examine key grounded theory texts to discern their ontological and epistemological orientation. They find Strauss and Corbin‟s texts ...

Two Constructivist Aspects of Category Theory

Category theory has two unexpected links to constructivism: First, why is topos logic so close to intuitionistic logic? The paper argues that in part the resemblance is superficial, in part it is due to selective attention, and in part topos theory is objectively tied to the motives for later intuitionistic logic little related to Brouwer’s own stated motives. Second, why is so much of general ...

Anticipation in the Constructivist Theory of Cognition

I am not a computer scientist and I do not speak the languages of Quantum Computation, Hyperincursion, or Cellular Automata. But a couple of weeks ago I read some of the prose sections of Robert Rosen's Anticipatory Systems, and it gave me the hope that the " anticipation " referred to in the title of this conference would not be altogether different from the anticipations we depend on in manag...