This chapter explores issues in memory and affect in connection with possible architectures for artificial cognition. Because memory and emotion are evolutionarily and developmentally rooted in social interdependence, a new understanding of these issues is necessary for the principled design of true intelligent systems. We treat emotion not as an optional extra or as a brief episode of feeling,...

Among race theorists, the view that race is a social construction is widespread. While the term ‘social construction’ is sometimes intended tomeanmerely that race does not (as once believed) constitute a robust, biological natural kind, it often labels the stronger position that race is real, but not a biological kind. For example, Charles Mills (1998) writes that, ‘‘the task of those working o...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com stopped being attributed exclusively to unconscious conflicts, sexology has changed in theoretical, methodological, and diagnostic aspects [1]. Contributions from the various medical specialties, modern psychology, and social constructionism have allowed a broader understanding of the sexual difficulties. Despite the recognized importance of sexual ...

The purpose of this study was to describe international perspectives concerning terms, definitions, and meanings of adapted physical activity (APA) as (a) activities or service delivery, (b) a profession, and (c) an academic field of study. Gergen's social constructionism, our theory, guided analysis of multiple sources of data via qualitative methodology. Data sources were online surveys, APA ...

Social constructionism, an interdisciplinary paradigm, has emerged from a crisis in the social sciences in the late 20th century (Gergen 1999). This crisis is around the failure of modernist values to help us understand, and achieve mastery over, the worlds we live around a number of cohering areas. These include 'grand narrative', 'imperialist' claims to the true nature of a supposed external ...

Borrowing from other spheres of knowledge, social constructionism seems to have seeped into sociological thinking through micro-sociological theories. Unlike earlier classical and 'modern' sociological theories, micro-sociology tends to circumscribe analysis of human behavior to 'everyday sociology' and the social construction of experiential knowledge. Thus, human behavior is not perceived as ...

Two decades ago inquiry into narrative played but a minor role in scholarly deliberation; the relationship between narrative analysis and historiography was little explored; the term "narrative" had scarcely entered the vocabulary of psychological science. Today the study of narrative concatenates throughout the humanities and the social sciences, and the problems raised by such analyses for ou...