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'''Social constructionism''' holds that ''all knowledge'', including social roles, common sense and reality itself, is merely ''socially constructed''. | '''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. As such it borders [[Lockianism]], i.e. it falls toward the nurture end of the spectrum in the nature and nurture debate. | ||
The theory was developed in the 1960s philosophers Berger and Luckmann. | The theory was developed in the 1960s philosophers Berger and Luckmann. | ||
These authors saw the construction of new realities and religions as result of modernity and liberalization, departing from the ''traditional'' roles prescribed by religions. | |||
Berger lamented that parents decide reality for the next generation by ''institutionalizing'' their ''arbitrary knowledge''. | Berger saw liberalism as causing a "homelessness of the mind". | ||
Berger also lamented that parents decide reality for the next generation by ''institutionalizing'' their ''arbitrary knowledge''. | |||
Social constructionism was later more or less ''rebranded'' as '''postmodernism'''. | Social constructionism was later more or less ''rebranded'' as '''postmodernism'''. | ||
==Critique== | ==Critique== | ||
Today, and | Today, and slightly diverging from the original definition, critics of the new left accuse them of 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> | ||