Concept

Social constructivism

Overview

sociological theory of knowledge according to which human development is socially situated, and knowledge is constructed through interaction with others; states that people work together to actively construct artifacts

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Philosophers who discussed Social constructivism

• Slavoj Žižek
• Paul Boghossian
• Michel Foucault
• Paul Feyerabend
• Hilary Putnam
• Lewis Gordon

Related ideas

• Sociology
• Ontology
• Psychoanalysis
• Paradigm shift
• Self-determination
• Direct and indirect realism
• Epistemology
• Lev Vygotsky
• Meaning-making
• Maarten Boudry

Opposing perspectives

• Populism

Place in the tradition

Part of Analytic philosophy.

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