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'''Social constructionism''' holds that ''all knowledge'' (including social roles, common sense) and thus reality itself is ''socially constructed'' to various degrees.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_constructionism#Berger_and_Luckmann</ref> | '''Social constructionism''' holds that ''all knowledge'' (including social roles, common sense) and thus reality itself is ''socially constructed'' to various degrees.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_constructionism#Berger_and_Luckmann</ref> | ||
Even the RationalWiki admits that social constructionist view is silly in its extreme form.<ref>https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Social_constructionism</ref> | Even the RationalWiki admits that social constructionist view is silly in its extreme form.<ref>https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Social_constructionism</ref> | ||
As such, | As such, it borders '''Lockianism''' which refers to John Locke's philosophy that humans are 'blank-slates', meaning that very little is biologically predetermined. Hence, it falls toward the nurture end of the spectrum in the nature and nurture debate. It's all mindbogglingly simple concepts that one is surprised to even see entire philosophical movements to have assembled around, but hey, that's better than [[masturbation|accomplishing nothing]]! | ||
The | The New Left and [[anti-incels]] are primarily social constructionists, and hence simply dismiss arguments made by incels on grounds of evolutionary psychology. | ||
Social constructionism was developed in the 1960s philosophers Berger and Luckmann.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_constructionism#Berger_and_Luckmann</ref> | |||
These authors saw the construction of new realities and religions as result of modernity and liberalization, departing from the ''traditional'' roles prescribed by religions. | 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 saw liberalism as causing a "homelessness of the mind". | Berger saw liberalism as causing a "homelessness of the mind". | ||
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Social constructionism was later more or less ''rebranded'' as '''postmodernism'''. | Social constructionism was later more or less ''rebranded'' as '''postmodernism'''. | ||
== Scientific consensus == | |||
Scientific consensus rejects any hard-line nature vs. nuture stance, including Lockianism, strong and weak social constructionism and [[biological essentialism]] respectively, but it leans towards nature. Most human behaviour is biologically rather than socially determined, e.g. humans have cross-culturally the same facial expressions for the most part. But obviously they are also malleable to some extent, e.g. humans become smarter attending to school, but their ''potential'' is largely predetermined. Scientific theories like mathematics are thought to be objectively true and be independent of culture. | |||
==Critique== | ==Critique== | ||