Open AccessSociology and constructivist perspective: Sociological theory and constructivist meta-theory
Author(s) -
Dušan Marinković
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
zbornik matice srpske za društvene nauke/zbornik matice srpske za društvene nauke
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0836
pISSN - 0352-5732
DOI - 10.2298/zmsdn0315109m
Subject(s) - constructivism (international relations) , epistemology , sociology , social constructivism , social reality , perspective (graphical) , metatheory , sociological imagination , relation (database) , sociology of knowledge , social science , philosophy , political science , mathematics , geometry , database , politics , computer science , law , international relations
In this paper, the author considers relation between sociology and constructivist perspective, which is one of the most current approaches in social science. Even though social constructivism offered significant alternative to contemporary sociology: opposite in the to the traditional paradigms, it is not a homogeneous meta-theory yet. In that respect the author concludes that social constructivism appeared in the period when traditional heritage of science is endanger with various discourses of reality; men, knowledge, science, and truth, and on the other hand, with the interior theoretical and epistemological and methodological discrepancy