Social Construction - By Whom?

Social constructivists come in a number of variants, but they all seem to hold that our observations could and should not to be taken at face value; that our conceptions of the world and society are historically and culturally contingent and hence relative; that knowledge is a result of human interaction and negotiation; and that how concepts (or things) are explicitly or implicitly categorized and defined often has grave consequences for the people categorized and defined. Therefore knowledge is (always, or often) not (just) description and explanation of brute facts but has a political or power aspect to it.

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