Open AccessCRITICAL-DISCURSIVE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM: WHAT IS THE STANDPOINT OF SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM RESEARCH?
Author(s) -
Janicce Martínez Richard
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of social sciences, transformations and transitions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2792-3843
DOI - 10.52459/josstt1150721
Subject(s) - epistemology , social constructionism , sociology , relativism , constructionism , positivism , relevance (law) , social reality , subject (documents) , social science , philosophy , political science , library science , computer science , law
An overview of critical-discursive Social Constructionism is presented, showing its historical development and its critique of any methodological approaches that do not take into consideration the social-historical reality. In particular, it criticises the dualistic ‘external object - cognitive subject’ position of the Positivist current that has its roots in the Enlightenment and later in Modernity, which leads to a conception of reason and scientific truth as supposedly incontrovertible realities outside of any historical and social construction. Finally, social constructionism is presented not as a formal theory grounded of strict methodological principles, but rather as an approach that attempts to show the limitations of certain scientific or methodological views, emphasising the importance of social construction through language and the relative relevance of different positions, from which a certain vindication of epistemological relativism emerges.