Social Constructionism Flashcards

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positivism

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considers knowledge to be measurable and corresponding to the truth

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social constructionism

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concerned with knowledge being contingent on culture, history and language

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constructs

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metaphors of lenses/frames that we hold up against our social/personal worlds

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what did SC originate from?

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postmodernism, which challenges views of modernism as scientific knowledge is constructed and sense-making occurs through linguistic rules

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what is SC aligned with?

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relativism- reality is dependent on the ways we come to know it

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the four tenets of SC

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  1. scepticism
  2. historically and culturally situated
  3. language and social interaction
  4. knowledge is active
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scepticism

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must be critical and question ‘taken-for-granted’ understandings, as observations are only perceptions and not the true nature of phenomena

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historically and culturally situated

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knowledge is a social product based on existing frameworks and artefacts of previous societies

our understanding is not the best

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language and social interaction

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language is sustained through social interaction and provides frames of understandings, as representations and constructions of specific cultures

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knowledge is active

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different constructions invite different responses, and some are considered to be ‘better’ than others

knowledge dictates power in social relationships

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applications of SC

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professional socialisation

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professional socialisation

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the internalisation of practices, norms, values, attitudes, skills, and identities of the profession

an ongoing process done formally and informally

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critiques of SC

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of death and furniture

meaningless

moral relativism

lack of need for psychology

self-defeating

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of death and furniture

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some issues go beyond (de)construction

social constructionism argues about the importance of questioning this tacit knowledge.

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furniture

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objects external to talk; easy targets that avoid the nebulous

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death

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emblem for the invocation of important values and morality outside of culture.

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meaningless

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gergen (2009) considers the dark side of postmodernism and the point in fighting equality if everything is a construction

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moral relativism

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SC seems to tolerate anything and stand for nothing

however, there are multiple ways of thinking about social objects which leads to empowerment and liberation

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lack of need for psychology

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if human behaviour, experience, and language is a product of SC, then the need for psychology is lost

Despite this, SC does not undermine experience, but sits in parallel to these issues

this allows for consideration of subjective experience and drives

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self-defeating

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in order to be sceptical, we must forego the foundations of scepticism

if all realities are constructed, how can constructionism be true?

SC exists on the theoretical and metatheoretical level

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