Method
Social constructionism
Overview
theory that shared understandings of the world create shared assumptions about reality
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The socially current object answers to a certain general type of conscious purpose or interest active in the individual and so to a general habit of valuation, and the concrete object to a special determination of this type of purpose with reference to others in the recognized working system of life. The agent's final attitude, on the conclusion of the judgment-process, may be expressed in either sort of…
John Dewey, Studies in Logical Theory
Close in meaning to Social constructionism; the term itself is not named.
For a long time the imaginative body of beliefs closely connected with the moral habits of a community group and with its emotional indulgences and consolations persists side by side with the growing body of matter of fact knowledge. Wherever possible they are interlaced. At other points, their inconsistencies forbid their interweaving, but the two things are kept apart as if in different compartments.
John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy
Close in meaning to Social constructionism; the term itself is not named.
The partial community of structure, whereby the two perceptive modes yield immediate demonstration of a common world, arises from their reference of sense-data, common to both, to localizations, diverse or identical, in a spatio-temporal system common to both. For example, colour is referred to an external space and to the eyes as organs of vision.
Alfred North Whitehead, Symbolism, its meaning and effect
Close in meaning to Social constructionism; the term itself is not named.
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