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-'''Social constructionists''' believe that human characteristics (like gender, race, class, and disability) have always been determined by socialization.  They take a hard-line nurture stance in the nurture vs. nature argument of human behaviour.  They claim that humans have always been '''blank-slates'''. This is typically accompanied by a notion that once we accept this, we can achieve a more harmonious society, even utopia.
+'''Social constructionists''' believe that humans develop conceptualisation of each others actions over time, which leads to habitual [[LARP|role-playing]] of a reciprocal social roles.
+The theory was promoted by Bergman and Luckmann, who were both critics of modernity and saw the liberalization of traditional institutions as causing people to have no more moral moorings. They did not have a prescriptive stance towards this, but were rather descriptive.  The main proponents of social constructionism, saw liberalism as causing a
+{{Quote|"homelessness of the mind."|Berger}}
 ==Social constructionism vs progressivism==