constructionist

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• For the social constructionist, sex is an ever-changing psychosocial construct created in the symbolic social worlds that allow people to interact with each other.

  Academic text (2003)

• But then Beauvoir was also a radical social constructionist.

  Academic text (2005)

• Some might respond that new social movements theory and the constructionist turn in movement studies address these questions.

  Academic text (2008)

• Like much of the New Social Studies, Project Africa was constructionist long before constructionism became popular.

  Academic text (1994)

• Some come from disciplines that tend to emphasize a social constructionist perspective over biology.

  Academic text (2003)

• Understanding discourse in this way is parallel to a social constructionist perspective.

  Academic text (2001)

• We see ourselves as part of the constructionist tradition that includes John Dewey, Maria Montessori, and Seymour Papert.

  Blog text (24)

• According to social constructionist theory, knowledge is gained through social interaction and collaboration (Berger & Luckmann, 1966; Vygotsky, 1978).

  Academic text (2012)

• The implications for sexology of the social constructionist project are that what purports to be the most neutral and objective perspective turns out to be highly and irrevocably subjective.

  Academic text (1991)

• Questions of meaning have been an integral part of the social constructionist study of sexuality, and an emphasis on behavior rather than meaning has been a key criticism by social constructionists of psychological and biomedical treatments of sexual science (Simon, 1996; Vance, 1991).

  Academic text (2003)

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A person who believes people learn by doing and exploring

focuses on social interaction as the primary way knowledge is formed

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