Social Constructionism Research Paper

Social constructionism is how we, as a society construct the world between language and ourselves. Most things are not taken as being in existence until agreed by society. Social constructionism is not concerned about how things exist in any such materialistic form but how we construct the using words and how we apply meanings to certain things. For example, in the material world it is about objects, such as bricks and books and in the social and psychological world it is about how we apply meanings to things such as love or personality. Identities are also constructed in a way of how we describe ourselves and tell the world who we are. The idea of the self can be considered a social construct too. Our identity is the creation of social interactions with other people and our reactions to the expectations within society. Identities only appear or emerge in relation to one another because without each other they don’t have any meaning. Most of the time the things we experience in this world are just constructs, we as a society have opinions about everything and we experience the world through that objective. Social constructionism is a theory that knowledge and many aspects of the world around us are not real in any of themselves and only exist

Key points of social constructionism theories and the groups that are included

Present day social constructionist theories originate back to the works of Immanuel Kant Critique of the Power of Judgment (1790). Kant disputed that in order to have an existence of a world that was independent of human thinking, humans should not state or believe that the world was created by them. Kant stated that the world is without structure and is not divided into things and facts. Structure is imposed on the world by perceiving it and thinking of it in specific ways, as also and by the adoption of particular sets of beliefs, (rather than instead of others) about it (Kant, 2001).

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