Social epistemology
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| - | A '''social construction''' or '''social construct''' or '''"the [[popular imagination]]"''' is any [[institution]]alized entity or [[cultural artifact|artifact]] in a social system "invented" or "constructed" by participants in a particular [[culture]] or [[society]] that exists because people agree to behave as if it exists or follow certain [[convention (norm)|conventional]] rules. One example of a social construct is [[social status]]. | + | '''Social epistemology''' is a broad set of approaches to the study of [[knowledge]], all of which construe human knowledge as a collective achievement. |
| - | '''Social constructionism''' and '''[[social constructivism]]''' are [[Sociological theory|sociological theories]] of [[knowledge]] that consider how social phenomena or objects of consciousness develop in social contexts. Within constructionist thought, a [[social construction]] (social construct) is a concept or practice that is the construct (or [[cultural artifact|artifact]]) of a particular group. When we say that something is socially constructed, we are focusing on its dependence on contingent variables of our social selves rather than any inherent quality that it possesses in itself. | ||
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| - | Recent developments in science have shown that many cultural practices and conceptions once thought to be purely social constructions have a strong genetic component (see for instance, [[Richard Dawkins]]' explanation for [[altruism]] in ''[[The Selfish Gene]]''). | ||
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| - | *[[Consensus reality]] | ||
| - | *[[Constructivism in international relations]] | ||
| - | *[[Constructivist epistemology]] | ||
| - | *[[Epistemology]] | ||
| - | *[[Ethnomethodology]] | ||
| - | *[[Phenomenology (psychology)|Phenomenology]] | ||
| *[[Phronetic social science]] | *[[Phronetic social science]] | ||
| - | *[[Parametric determinism]] | + | *[[Sociology of knowledge]] |
| - | *[[Positivism]] | + | *[[Sociology of scientific knowledge]] |
| - | *[[Science and technology studies]] | + | *[[Steve Fuller, Social Epistemologist]] |
| - | *[[Social epistemology]] | + | *[[Social constructionism]] |
| - | *[[Social theory]] | + | |
| - | *[[The Social Construction of Reality]] | + | |
| - | *[[Symbolic interactionism]] | + | |
| - | *[[Postmodern social construction of nature]] | + | |
| - | *[[Talcott Parsons]] | + | |
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Social epistemology is a broad set of approaches to the study of knowledge, all of which construe human knowledge as a collective achievement.
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See also
- Phronetic social science
- Sociology of knowledge
- Sociology of scientific knowledge
- Steve Fuller, Social Epistemologist
- Social constructionism
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