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The stance that language and all other aspects of human interaction have been socially constructed and is a continuous process of being socially constructed, and to various extents reproduced or reconstructed, through human thought and interaction. Categories are arbitrary, concepts exists in a historical and cultural context, knowledge is a social process intertwined with social action.

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	The stance that language and all other aspects of human interaction have been socially constructed and is a continuous process of being socially constructed, and to various extents reproduced or reconstructed, through human thought and interaction. Categories are arbitrary, concepts exists in a historical and cultural context, knowledge is a social process intertwined with social action.		The stance that language and all other aspects of human interaction have been socially constructed and is a continuous process of being socially constructed, and to various extents reproduced or reconstructed, through human thought and interaction. Categories are arbitrary, concepts exists in a historical and cultural context, knowledge is a social process intertwined with social action.
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		+	Social constructionism, as defined by Burr, can be summed up in four major points:
		+	First of all, it takes a critical stance toward “taken-for-granted knowledge”, the ways in which we
		+	understand the world and even ourselves. Our categories do not necessarily refer to any real divisions,
		+	and are always questionable.
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		+	Second, it sees understanding of categories and concepts, and thus of the world and of all the other
		+	people that each of us share this world with, as existing in a historical and cultural context. It changes
		+	over time and between different social milieus.
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		+	Third, that knowledge is sustained by social processes. Our understanding of ourselves, each other and
		+	the world is something that we humans construct between us. The ways we see things, our perception
		+	of truth, are based engaging each other in social processes and interactions.
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		+	Fourth, that knowledge and social action are intertwined. How people treat each other depends on how
		+	they understand each other, and how they react to a behavior depends on how they conceptualize this
		+	behavior.
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		+	The human mind uses concepts to understand phenomena, and it uses terms (words, or combinations of
		+	words) to refer to concepts. A discourse on a subject is thus twice removed from the subject itself: First
		+	the step between the term and the concept that the word refers to, then the step between the concept and
		+	the phenomena that the concept refers to. A definition of a concept is not in itself true or false: It is
		+	always true by definition, and the question is instead to what extent this definition that is being used is
		+	or isn't a good and reasonable definition. Truth is something that societies have to work to produce10 -
		+	language is socially constructed as well as a constructive force.
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		+	To conceptualize a phenomenon is to understand it by assigning a concept to the phenomenon... or
		+	rather to [the phenomenon, as you understand it]. To refer to this concept, a word or phrase is needed. If
		+	the dictionary already contain a suitable word, this potential problem is automatically solved by using
		+	the dictionary definition (also known as “lexical definition”). If the word has many different uses as
		+	well, a precising definition may be needed. If no suitable word exist yet, the options are to either use a
		+	stipulative definition (either to create a new word, or to assign a new meaning to word that already
		+	exist) or to settle for using a longer phrase to refer to the concept. What concepts and
		+	[[conceptualization]]s our language gives us access to we have access to greatly influence how we think and language is permanently in a process of growing through constant development and change. Note
		+	that the same neologism can be both an invention and a discovery at the same time: Inventing the word
		+	for the concept, while discovering the phenomenon pinpointed by the concept.

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