The earliest mention of the idea that realities are human creations is found in Greek philosophy, but contemporary conceptions have originated with Berger and Luckmann's The Social Construction of Reality . This entry distinguishes cognitive from social constructions and accounts for the latter as ...
In 1966 sociologists Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann wrote a book calledThe Social Construction of Reality. In it, they argued that society is created by humans and human interaction, which they callhabitualization. Habitualization describes how “any action that is repeated frequently becomes cas...
Sociologists examine the social constructions of reality as they relate to gender, race and ethnicity, age, economic class, religion, and other factors that make up our social location. We all take on various roles throughout our lives, and our social interactions depend on what types...
The underdetermined nature of media discourse allows plenty of room for challengers such as social movements to offer competing constructions of reality and to find support for them from readers whose daily lives may lead them to construct meaning in ways that go beyond media imagery. 展开 关键词...
Feminist theory is a form of critical theory concerned with challenging social constructions of reality and destabilizing systems of power and oppression. Feminist theory is especially concerned with the perspectives of women, minorities, and the oppressed. Core concepts of feminist theory include sex,...
Social constructionism is also criticized on grounds of relativism. By arguing that no objective truth exists and that all social constructions of the same phenomena are equally legitimate, no construct can be more legitimate than another. This is especially problematic in the context of scientific re...
, but would not match potentially politer constructions such as I would be grateful (if) ..., for which an additional comment of reassurance, e.g. ok, sure would be required. The development of greetings has also been shown to be a case in point in highly conventionalised matching ...
inherent in the social construction of gender and encourage alternative constructions that more adequately represent men's and women's actual psychological ... M Sheinberg,P Penn - 《Journal of Marital & Family Therapy》 被引量: 57发表: 1991年 Of Men and Monsters: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Const...
Social constructionism, while denying the efficacy of social structures, affirms the reality of the discursive domain without falling into the fallacy of supposing that because many aspects of our lives are our own constructions, all must be. 展开 ...
Global trade, public health, and health services: Stakeholders' constructions of the key issues Focusing mainly on the United States and Latin America, we aimed to identify the constructions of social reality held by the major stakeholders participati... H Waitzkin,R Jasso-Aguilar,A Landwehr,.....