🚨Paper🚨 What is social constructionism about race?
Philosophers of race usually treat constructionism as a theory about what exists. This misses something important: race constructionism is a practice - a way to investigate human activities.
#philsky #STS
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Philosophers of race usually treat constructionism as a theory about what exists. This misses something important: race constructionism is a practice - a way to investigate human activities.
#philsky #STS
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
What is social constructionism about race? A reply to Hochman - Biology & Philosophy
This paper reconceptualizes social constructionism about race (hereafter SCR). While SCR is considered a hegemonic view in philosophy and academia more broadly, Hochman (2022) argues that this hegemon...
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September 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
🚨Paper🚨 What is social constructionism about race?
Philosophers of race usually treat constructionism as a theory about what exists. This misses something important: race constructionism is a practice - a way to investigate human activities.
#philsky #STS
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Philosophers of race usually treat constructionism as a theory about what exists. This misses something important: race constructionism is a practice - a way to investigate human activities.
#philsky #STS
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I had put away the essentialism/constructionism feminist thinking from the 80s and 90s, but given the massive return of biologism across many domains—sports, foreign aid, popular culture, medicine—I’m glad those earlier tools still exist.
September 24, 2026 at 4:32 AM
I had put away the essentialism/constructionism feminist thinking from the 80s and 90s, but given the massive return of biologism across many domains—sports, foreign aid, popular culture, medicine—I’m glad those earlier tools still exist.
Social constructionism, contrary to reactionary fucks like Pinker, does not collapse if humans aren't perfect blank slates. Even Marx gestured broadly at species being somewhere underneath the mode of production.
January 6, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Social constructionism, contrary to reactionary fucks like Pinker, does not collapse if humans aren't perfect blank slates. Even Marx gestured broadly at species being somewhere underneath the mode of production.
social constructionism is pseudo-religious woo; time to focus on rational, objective truths like citizenship and justice
May 17, 2024 at 3:14 AM
social constructionism is pseudo-religious woo; time to focus on rational, objective truths like citizenship and justice
As of today our book, The Society that Learns: Constructionism and Lifelong Learning in Thailand, is freely available open access via The MIT Press Direct to Open initiative.
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The Society That Learns: Constructionism and Lifelong Learning in Thailand
How Thai farmers, teachers, and workers created new approaches to lifelong learning through constructionism—and transformed communities across the country
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July 30, 2026 at 9:37 PM
As of today our book, The Society that Learns: Constructionism and Lifelong Learning in Thailand, is freely available open access via The MIT Press Direct to Open initiative.
@pauloblikstein.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @luismn.bsky.social
#constructionism
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@pauloblikstein.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @luismn.bsky.social
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This is the ground TERFery (as opposed to GCism which, yet again, IS A DIFFERENT THING) springs from. An incomplete social constructionism that smuggles its essentialism via unexamined queerphobia and becomes lethal.
January 6, 2025 at 8:18 AM
This is the ground TERFery (as opposed to GCism which, yet again, IS A DIFFERENT THING) springs from. An incomplete social constructionism that smuggles its essentialism via unexamined queerphobia and becomes lethal.
Strict Constructionism is about as intellectually solid for them as their state's rights stands.
July 2, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Strict Constructionism is about as intellectually solid for them as their state's rights stands.
not really a way to do this extreme social constructionism and not eventually land on trans men being women
(this is because this oversimplistic analysis doesn't work)
(this is because this oversimplistic analysis doesn't work)
July 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
not really a way to do this extreme social constructionism and not eventually land on trans men being women
(this is because this oversimplistic analysis doesn't work)
(this is because this oversimplistic analysis doesn't work)
"social constructionism made me a terf" no you were in a cult. literally anything they said would have pushed you in that direction it's actually not that difficult with some discipline to use social constructionism as a tool to analyze how trans demographics are constructed it's very easy.
January 7, 2025 at 5:07 AM
"social constructionism made me a terf" no you were in a cult. literally anything they said would have pushed you in that direction it's actually not that difficult with some discipline to use social constructionism as a tool to analyze how trans demographics are constructed it's very easy.
joke’s on me because the misunderstanding of social constructionism is also socially constructed
August 8, 2026 at 12:37 PM
joke’s on me because the misunderstanding of social constructionism is also socially constructed
I did IR in college, and they always taught realism, liberalism and constructionism as opposing ideas, but I've come to realize that they're all describing the international system at different levels of trust.
October 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I did IR in college, and they always taught realism, liberalism and constructionism as opposing ideas, but I've come to realize that they're all describing the international system at different levels of trust.
Get this person into a social constructionism class posthaste.
March 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Get this person into a social constructionism class posthaste.
Strict Constructionism for thee, a living document for me.
December 20, 2023 at 9:34 PM
Strict Constructionism for thee, a living document for me.
Social constructionism essentially argues that we understand truth through consensus. Facts -- especially disputed or confusing facts -- are clarified in consultation with our peers.
August 3, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Social constructionism essentially argues that we understand truth through consensus. Facts -- especially disputed or confusing facts -- are clarified in consultation with our peers.
people critique social constructionism and then whistle merrily along as they reify atrocity into a fun little conceptual exercise
January 18, 2026 at 7:27 PM
people critique social constructionism and then whistle merrily along as they reify atrocity into a fun little conceptual exercise
4. Buddhism is actually very compatible with the sociological theory of social constructionism.
July 20, 2025 at 10:58 PM
4. Buddhism is actually very compatible with the sociological theory of social constructionism.
I asked what makes social constructionism detached from reality? I had to explain what that was but to keep it short, he thought of the likes of Edward Said, Frantz Fanon, Antonio Gramsci, Michel Foucault, Jacque Derrida, Talal Asad, Mahmood Mamdani, & the list goes on as “Tankies with silly theory”
August 19, 2026 at 4:04 PM
I asked what makes social constructionism detached from reality? I had to explain what that was but to keep it short, he thought of the likes of Edward Said, Frantz Fanon, Antonio Gramsci, Michel Foucault, Jacque Derrida, Talal Asad, Mahmood Mamdani, & the list goes on as “Tankies with silly theory”
some remarks on the use and abuse of "nature," the conservatism hidden within feminists' social constructionism, and the real purpose of studying history
October 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
some remarks on the use and abuse of "nature," the conservatism hidden within feminists' social constructionism, and the real purpose of studying history
social constructionism: meaning is socially negotiated
society: social construction is when something is made up
society: social construction is when something is made up
August 8, 2026 at 12:40 PM
social constructionism: meaning is socially negotiated
society: social construction is when something is made up
society: social construction is when something is made up
AI will mainstream social constructionism
sorta coming around to the view that the social danger of genAI images is less that they'll make people believe fabricated things are real and more that they'll make people believe real things are fabricated
November 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
AI will mainstream social constructionism
This is not to say that transness does not pose a problem for a hard social constructionism that claims gender is patriarchy all the way down, but it is to say that no feminism has ever actually been this and feminist objections to transness have always been smuggled essentialism.
January 6, 2025 at 8:18 AM
This is not to say that transness does not pose a problem for a hard social constructionism that claims gender is patriarchy all the way down, but it is to say that no feminism has ever actually been this and feminist objections to transness have always been smuggled essentialism.
I would like to invite people to take their social constructionism even further. How much that we assume to be innate and biological is actually so? Maybe less than you would think.
I invite you to naturalise even less:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throwin...
I invite you to naturalise even less:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throwin...
Throwing Like a Girl - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
December 31, 2024 at 9:58 PM
I would like to invite people to take their social constructionism even further. How much that we assume to be innate and biological is actually so? Maybe less than you would think.
I invite you to naturalise even less:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throwin...
I invite you to naturalise even less:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throwin...
I’m being canceled because of my realism about race
Holy shit! Canceled for haslangerian constructionism?
LOL no… no not that realism…
So…youre persuaded by quayshawn spencer?
Haha no… not that realism either
Which realism exactly?
Oh, you know the one
Holy shit! Canceled for haslangerian constructionism?
LOL no… no not that realism…
So…youre persuaded by quayshawn spencer?
Haha no… not that realism either
Which realism exactly?
Oh, you know the one
August 26, 2026 at 1:42 PM
I’m being canceled because of my realism about race
Holy shit! Canceled for haslangerian constructionism?
LOL no… no not that realism…
So…youre persuaded by quayshawn spencer?
Haha no… not that realism either
Which realism exactly?
Oh, you know the one
Holy shit! Canceled for haslangerian constructionism?
LOL no… no not that realism…
So…youre persuaded by quayshawn spencer?
Haha no… not that realism either
Which realism exactly?
Oh, you know the one