Through the application of life course theory to the study of sexual orientation, this paper specifies a new paradigm for research on human sexual orientation that seeks to reconcile divisions among biological, social science, and humanistic paradigms. Recognizing the historical, social, and cultural relativity of human development, this paradigm argues for a moderate stance between essentialis...

Modeling is not just a scientific activity, but an educational one, and is naturally paired with the theory and practice of constructionism. To date, however, constructionist modeling environments such as NetLogo have focused on individual work, rather than collaborative modeling. In this paper, we describe our research efforts at making modeling a collaborative activity, using a Web-based tool...

This essay introduces contributions to a special issue exploring alternative accounts of organizational change management (OCM). It begins with identifying why such alternatives are needed by pointing to core assumptions within OCM, including a practical and ontological prochange bias, managerialism and universalism. The alternatives to OCM are then framed in terms of the constructionism associ...

Abstract Instagram is the place for visualization of everything, from travel and food to abstract concepts such as freedom. Over past decade, platform has introduced a bottom-up process where users co-produce image repertoires that shape boundaries imaginable. Drawing on an epistemology social constructionism, we ask which visual are associated with value-related terms Instagram. We studied 20 ...