Construction versus Realism? The Unrealized Potential of Communicative Constructivism.

Autor(en)

Hubert Knoblauch, Michaela Pfadenhauer

Abstrakt

The ideas linked to the formulation “Social Construction of Reality” (SoCo) have spilled over from the Social Sciences and Humanities to public discourses, e.g. on gender and truth, and form in epistemic terms the crossroads of the polarization of liberal and anti-liberal world views par excellence. By focusing on the “academic debate” about the theory of Social Construction of Reality we argue that the polemical misuse of “social construction,” quite common in public and political discourse, also characterizes New Realism. This recent philosophical movement frames its innovative character first by reframing the problem of the social construction of reality from social theory to philosophy and such failing the basic idea of the entire approach, and second, by referring not to Social Construction of Reality but to a specific understanding of “Social Constructionism.” However, the numerous critiques of SoCo over time have led to Communicative Constructivism (CoCo) as a comprehensive reformulation within Sociology of Knowledge. As an empirically grounded theory, CoCo relates to new forms of realisms constituted in their opposition to SoCo.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Soziologie

Externe Organisation(en)

Technische Universität Berlin

Journal

Sociologica

Band

17

Seiten

119-136

ISSN

1814-5647

DOI

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/16725

Publikationsdatum

07-2023

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504019 Mediensoziologie, 504018 Kultursoziologie, 504023 Politische Soziologie

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/3cea8692-a43f-4b45-80dd-afdfbb5b4f20