36 Part 1: Rules facts to which they refer. Constructivism begins with deeds. Deeds done,
acts taken, words spoken-These are all that facts are. Social scientists freely assume that …

In this paper I discuss the question of what it means to say that a property is socially
constructed. I focus on an influential project that many social constructivists are engaged in …

Constructivism is a much abused word. But since Ian Hacking has done a review of some of
his meanings, an effort is made to see how it can be rescued from the disrepute of'social …

When an idea, in any field of knowledge, is new and very fruitful it displays two
interconnected and powerful features. First, it makes possible the linking of related incidents …

I want to express my profound gratitude to those who organized the Atlanta conference and
to all who agreed to contribute to it. As you know, constructivism is a subject that has …

The core idea seems clear enough. To say of something that it is socially constructed is to
emphasize its dependence on contingent aspects of our social selves. It is to say: This thing …

Like Bourdieu, British sociologist Anthony Giddens seeks to make social practices ordered
across space and time, rather than the experiences of individual actors or any kind of …

Interest in epistemological questions is not limited to philosophy today. Numerous empirical
sciences have, in the normal course of their research, been forced to proceed from the …

Nicholas Onuf is a leading scholar in international relations and introduced constructivism to
international relations, coining the term constructivism in his book World of Our Making …

Constructivism implies that learners are encouraged to construct their own knowledge
instead of copying it from an authority, be it a book or a teacher, in realistic situations instead …