Originating in postmodern interpretations of diverse intellectual disciplines, social constructionism (SC) exerts a profound influence throughout modern psychology (K. J. Gergen, 1985), including such areas as social psychology, psychoanalysis, feminist psychology, family therapy, and the psychology of knowledge. The core of SC is the proposition that humans construct knowledge through social i...

In this article, the author attempts to bring the practical theological conversion research into dialogue with the theory of social constructionism. Such an interdisciplinary approach to religious conversion shifts the attention from the intra-psychic religious experience of the converter to the contextual understanding of conversion phenomena. The author emphasises that the narrative-socialcon...

in this book, elizabeth frazer offers a detailed study of the concept of community; and examines political and philosophical communitarianism. more specifically, she analyzes the relationships between communitarianism and interpretivism, social constructionism, locality, family life and finally politics.

In 1999, Maine Governor Angus King Jr. asked Seymour Papert to develop a model of what learning might look like in the future. Papert’s forty years of work with children and computing, as well as the historic impact information technology is having on society, required that this vision for the future of learning would involve computers. The result of this collaboration was the Constructionist L...

Building upon the notion that TV and video programs will be accessible via the web, there is the question if and how it can bring added value for education. How will these two genres (working on internet versus relaxing on the sofa) go together. From a post-modern point of view, the mass media like TV, contribute to the supposed mechanism of ‘social constructionism’. However the program makers ...

One of the deep roots of opposition to social constructionism is the belief that the very idea of a social construction of physical concepts is highly suspect. In this paper, I want to call attention to the fact that such “constructions” can occur in the opposite direction as well. According to responsibilism, attributions of actions are to be understood in terms of ascriptions of responsibilit...