Social Constructionism

Social constructionism is a new trend of thought or research focus in contemporary psychology. It maintains that human reasoning, self, knowledge, and emotion are all products of social construction, or the results of the complex social interaction that involves specific temporal and spatial factors, social history, and cultural factors. Social constructionism is often confused with social constructivism. Indeed, they are essentially different. Compared to social constructionism, social constructivism is an older psychological concept that holds knowledge and psychology are constructed through social culture, which is a limited point of view. It retains the subject–object dualism and remains as a part of modern culture. Lev Vygotsky, John Dewey, and George Mead are all representatives of this component of modern psychology. Social constructionism, on the other hand, incorporates the criticism of social constructivism on the Theory of Reflection and deepens the criticism on modernity...