ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the similarities between Pragmatic Constructivism and Actor Network Theory (ANT). It discusses the kind of human realities that may be the consequence of ANT and pragmatic constructivism. The chapter shows that despite similar ambitions, pragmatic constructivism and ANT differ substantially concerning the understanding of the actors' freedom to choose and ability to reflect. This difference is found concerning the possibility dimension, where ANT seems to subscribe to a kind of essentialism, and concerning the value dimension that seems totally absent within ANT. In pragmatic constructivism reality expresses a successful and well-functioning relationship between the actor and the world. For pragmatic constructivism possibilities are potential actions that the actor can choose to make. For pragmatic constructivism, the values of the actor are central because the values are the basis for the actor to choose among different alternative possibilities and thereby construct the reality of the actor.
