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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> | ||
There is also strong and weak social constructionism, referring to which extent something is merely a construct rather than objective truth. | |||
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> | ||
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Social constructionism was developed in the 1960s philosophers Berger and Luckmann.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_constructionism#Berger_and_Luckmann</ref> | 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 | These authors saw an ongoing construction of new realities and "religions" as result of modernity and liberalization, departing from the ''traditional'' roles prescribed by religions. In Berger's words, liberalism was causing a "homelessness of the mind". | ||
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Berger also lamented that parents decide reality for the next generation by ''institutionalizing'' their ''arbitrary knowledge''. | 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'''. | ||