constructivist

1. not comparableOf or relating to constructivism.

   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

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   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

plural constructivists

1. An advocate of constructivism.