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'''Social constructionism''' holds that ''all knowledge'', including social roles, common sense and reality itself, merely | '''Social constructionism''' holds that ''all knowledge'', including social roles, common sense and reality itself, is merely ''socially constructed''. | ||
Social interactions and polarization are thought to lead to habitual [[LARP|role-playing]] of ''fixed'' social roles. | Social interactions and polarization are thought to lead to habitual [[LARP|role-playing]] of ''fixed'' social roles. | ||
The theory was developed in the 1960s philosophers Berger and Luckmann. Berger saw liberalism as causing a "homelessness of the mind". | The theory was developed in the 1960s philosophers Berger and Luckmann. | ||
Early authors saw this as result of modernity and liberalization, causing people to create their own "religions" and realities (related to [[postmodernism]]), departing from the ''traditional'' roles prescribed by religions. Berger saw liberalism as causing a "homelessness of the mind". | |||
Berger lamented that parents decide reality for the next generation by ''institutionalizing'' their ''arbitrary knowledge''. | |||
Social constructionism was later more or less ''rebranded'' as '''postmodernism'''. | |||
Related dynamics can be observed in the [[anti-incels]]/[[incels]] polarization, where firmly entrenched memes and roles create polarization over time and define each other's actions in online forums. The social roles of modern blackpill and [[anti-incel]] forums become codified almost to the point of [[incels.co|subcultural]], [[anti-incels|not traditionally moral]], and [[blackpill|quasi-religious]] activity. | Related dynamics can be observed in the [[anti-incels]]/[[incels]] polarization, where firmly entrenched memes and roles create polarization over time and define each other's actions in online forums. The social roles of modern blackpill and [[anti-incel]] forums become codified almost to the point of [[incels.co|subcultural]], [[anti-incels|not traditionally moral]], and [[blackpill|quasi-religious]] activity. | ||
== | ==Critique== | ||
Today, and somewhat diverging from the original definition, ''social constructivism'' is mostly used by critics of the new left, regarding them as having adopted extreme [[Lockianism|Lockianist]], | Today, and somewhat diverging from the original definition, ''social constructivism'' is mostly used by critics of the new left, regarding them as having adopted extreme [[Lockianism|Lockianist]], postmodernist assumptions that gender, race, beauty, class, and disability are only or predominantly ''socially constructed'' rather than [[biological essentialism|biological]], and a [[politically correctness|politically correct]] belief that humans are for the most part ''blank slates'' and ''infinitely malleable''. | ||
Critics such as [[Jordan Peterson]] and other [[tradcon|tradcons]] accuse these "postmodern social constructionists", who they see philosophically rooted in [[Marxism]], of a [[Marxism|resentful]] pessimism that aforementioned perceived "social constructions" would be the roots of most evil, invented by powerful [[men|evil people]] as a means of oppression. Such quasi-Marxist beliefs are thought to be driven by a tremendous moral superiority and a naive expectation that by e.g. breaking down gender roles, one can achieve a more harmonious society, even utopia.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vofiOCIWnCY</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm7vmHwfCdg</ref> | Critics such as [[Jordan Peterson]] and other [[tradcon|tradcons]] accuse these "postmodern social constructionists", who they see philosophically rooted in [[Marxism]], of a [[Marxism|resentful]] pessimism that aforementioned perceived "social constructions" would be the roots of most evil, invented by powerful [[men|evil people]] as a means of oppression. Such quasi-Marxist beliefs are thought to be driven by a tremendous moral superiority and a naive expectation that by e.g. breaking down gender roles, one can achieve a more harmonious society, even utopia.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vofiOCIWnCY</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm7vmHwfCdg</ref> | ||