ABSTRACT
Social constructivism is one of the most prominent theoretical approaches in the social sciences. This volume celebrates the 50th anniversary of its first formulation in Peter Berger and Luckmann’s classic foundational text, The Social Construction of Reality. Addressing the work’s contribution to establishing social constructivism as a paradigm and discussing its potential for current questions in social theory, the contributing authors indicate the various cultural understandings and theoretical formulations that exist of social construction, its different fields of research and the promising new directions for future research that it presents in its most recent developments. A study of the importance of a work that established a paradigm in the international sociology of knowledge, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology with interests in social theory, the history of the social sciences and the significance of social constructivism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|2 pages
The theory of The Social Construction of Reality and its reception
chapter 3|10 pages
The cultural dimension of social constructions
chapter 5|14 pages
Social constructions through socialization
chapter 6|13 pages
Objectification and verbalization
part II|2 pages
The variety of constructivisms
chapter 9|13 pages
The social construction of technology
chapter 12|9 pages
Autogenesis and autopoiesis
chapter 13|19 pages
Knowledge as a form of the life-course
chapter 14|16 pages
Oblivion of power?
chapter 15|8 pages
Habitualization and habitus
part III|2 pages
Recent developments of social constructivism