Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaOn Constructivism: social construction of reality and research practice
The social sciences in its classical version – adopting as model the natural sciences – concentrated in the study of empirical facts with the pretension to arrive at an objective knowledge of reality. From this approach the social sciences became a theoretical representation of nature, while the fa...
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Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación
2012
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| description | The social sciences in its classical version – adopting as model the natural sciences – concentrated in the study of empirical facts with the pretension to arrive at an objective knowledge of reality. From this approach the social sciences became a theoretical representation of nature, while the facts constituted themselves with independence of human mind. But during the last century the basis of knowledge – the ontological and epistemological status as much of the object as subject – were put into question. In this new approach, the language – and the communication – comes to be the resources through which individuals and groups construct their daily life and the main interest is to reveal the process of construction of sense. This perspective radically modifies the prevailing paradigm in social sciences. However, the discussion about its validity has not been solved, in particular because it involves some of the main questions of modernity and posmodernity. Thus, the article sets out to consider the main elements that form this approach, identifying the different currents that coexist in its inland, the main
critics and specifically the consequences that derive so much from the point of view of the production of knowledge as in relation to the study of society |
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| spelling | clacso-CLACSO274732022-03-16T18:05:52Z On Constructivism: social construction of reality and research practice Sobre el Constructivismo: construcción social de lo real y práctica investigativa Pérez Rubio, Ana María The social sciences in its classical version – adopting as model the natural sciences – concentrated in the study of empirical facts with the pretension to arrive at an objective knowledge of reality. From this approach the social sciences became a theoretical representation of nature, while the facts constituted themselves with independence of human mind. But during the last century the basis of knowledge – the ontological and epistemological status as much of the object as subject – were put into question. In this new approach, the language – and the communication – comes to be the resources through which individuals and groups construct their daily life and the main interest is to reveal the process of construction of sense. This perspective radically modifies the prevailing paradigm in social sciences. However, the discussion about its validity has not been solved, in particular because it involves some of the main questions of modernity and posmodernity. Thus, the article sets out to consider the main elements that form this approach, identifying the different currents that coexist in its inland, the main critics and specifically the consequences that derive so much from the point of view of the production of knowledge as in relation to the study of society Las ciencias sociales en su versión clásica –adoptando como modelo a las ciencias naturales- se centraron en el estudio de los hechos empíricos con la pretensión de arribar a un conocimiento objetivo de la realidad. Desde este enfoque la ciencia deviene una representación teórica de la naturaleza, mientras lo real se constituye con independencia de la mente humana. Pero, durante el pasado siglo, los fundamentos mismos del conocimiento – el estatuto ontológico y epistemológico, tanto del objeto como el sujeto- serán cuestionados. En este nuevo enfoque, el lenguaje –y la comunicación- devienen los recursos a través de los cuales los individuos y los grupos construyen su vida cotidiana en tanto el interés se orienta a develar los procesos de construcción de sentido. Esta perspectiva modifica radicalmente el paradigma prevaleciente en las ciencias sociales; sin embargo, la discusión acerca de su validez no ha sido resuelta, en particular porque en ella se encuentran involucradas algunas de las principales cuestiones de la modernidad y la posmodernidad. Así, el artículo se propone considerar los principales elementos que configuran este enfoque, identificando las distintas corrientes que conviven en su interior, las principales críticas y específicamente, las consecuencias que se derivan tanto desde la perspectiva de la producción del conocimiento como en relación al estudio de la sociedad 2012-12-28 2022-03-16T18:05:52Z 2022-03-16T18:05:52Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Artículo revisado por pares https://www.relmecs.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/article/view/RELMECSv02n02a02 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/27473 spa https://www.relmecs.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/article/view/RELMECSv02n02a02/pdf application/pdf Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación Revista Latinoamericana de Metodología de las Ciencias Sociales (Relmecs); Vol. 2 No. 2 (2012); 5-21 Revista Latinoamericana de Metodología de las Ciencias Sociales (Relmecs); Vol. 2 Núm. 2 (2012); 5-21 Revista Latinoamericana de Metodología de las Ciencias Sociales (Relmecs); Vol. 2 N.º 2 (2012); 5-21 1853-7863 |
| spellingShingle | Pérez Rubio, Ana María On Constructivism: social construction of reality and research practice |
| title | On Constructivism: social construction of reality and research practice |
| title_full | On Constructivism: social construction of reality and research practice |
| title_fullStr | On Constructivism: social construction of reality and research practice |
| title_full_unstemmed | On Constructivism: social construction of reality and research practice |
| title_short | On Constructivism: social construction of reality and research practice |
| title_sort | on constructivism: social construction of reality and research practice |
| url | https://www.relmecs.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/article/view/RELMECSv02n02a02 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/27473 |