constructivist

CEFRB2

/kəˈnstrʌktɪvist/

noun · adjective

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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The artist was a constructivist.
Social norm scholarship in criminal law, I would suggest, is best understood as a type of constructivist social theory. The emerging literature attempts to explain behavior by focusing on shared interpretations of social practice.

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Social norm scholarship in criminal law, I would suggest, is best understood as a type of constructivist social theory. The emerging literature attempts to explain behavior by focusing on shared interpretations of social practice.
2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order
The importance of this constructivist perspective, as opposed to a theory of sexual essentialism which posits sexuality as biologically determined, is that it allows us to think about sex within a social, historical and cultural context. We can ask questions which recognize the importance of our sexual preference, our class, our race
1985 February 2, Janice Irvine, Sue Hyde, “The Discourse and the Action”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 28, page 8

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From constructive + -ist.