1st Edition
Social Constructivism as Paradigm? The Legacy of The Social Construction of Reality
Introduction: The Reality of Social Constructivism. Introductory Remarks
Part I: The Theory of "The Social Construction of Reality" and its Reception
1. Why are Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann Austrians?
2. The Theoretical Claims of The Social Construction of Reality
3. The Cultural Dimension of Social Constructions. On the Meaning of "Doings" and the Meaning of "Dones"
4. The Reality of Material Objectivations: On Dwelling as a Mode of Internalization
5. Social Constructions through Socialization. The Perspective of a Constructivist Socialization Research
6. Objectification and Verbalization. Social Constructivism and the Problem of Language
7. Some Reflections on Reception and Influence of Berger and Luckmann`s Book on Social Construction of Reality in the Spanish-Speaking World
Part II: The Variety of Constructivisms
8. Variations of Constructivism
9. The Social Construction of Technology: Where it Came From and Where it Might be Heading
10. The Concept of Alternation and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
11. From Pragmatism to Interactive Constructivism
12. Autogenesis and Autopoiesis. On the Emergence of Social Reality in Social and Radical Constructivism
13. Knowledge as a Form of the Life-Course – The General Constructivism of Social Systems Theory
14. Oblivion of Power? The Social Construction of Reality and the (Counter-) Critique of Pierre Bourdieu
15. Habitualization and Habitus – On the Relation between Social Constructivism and the Theory of Practice
16. The Social Construction of Reality: Traces and Transformation
Part III: Recent Developments of Social Constructivism
17. From the Social to the Communicative Construction of Reality
18. From Understanding to Impact: Communicative Power
19. The Discursive Construction of Realities
Conclusion: The Social Construction of Reality as a Paradigm?
Biography
Michaela Pfadenhauer is Professor of Sociology at the University of Vienna, Austria. She is the author of Invitation to the New Sociology of Knowledge and the co-editor of Epistemic and Learning Cultures.
Hubert Knoblauch is Professor of Sociology at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. He is the author of Powerpoint, Communication, and the Knowledge Society, the co-author of Videography: Introduction to Interpretive Videoanalysis of Social Situations, and the co-editor of Culture, Communication, and Creativity: Reframing the Relations of Media, Knowledge, and Innovation in Society.
