Abstract
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.
Highlights
Some obvious references of social constructionism are Keneth Gergen in the Anglo-Saxon world, and Tomás Ibáñez and Lupicinio Íñiguez in the Spanish-speaking world
A device that does not accept the illusions of stability inherent in the most and/or best accepted ideas of the discipline, including those produced by social constructionism, but rather purports to rethink them (Ibáñez, 1996)
It is difficult to attempt a strict definition of social constructionism that would not contradict its own proposal
Summary
Some obvious references of social constructionism are Keneth Gergen in the Anglo-Saxon world, and Tomás Ibáñez and Lupicinio Íñiguez in the Spanish-speaking world.
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