constructionism
nounEtymology From construction + -ism.
1
Law A strict interpretation of the actual words and phrases used in law, rather than any underlying intent.
2
Human sciences, Sciences, Social science, Social sciences The idea that people learn about, or perceive the world by constructing mental models.
- But is it one constructionism in many guises, or a variety of quite different constructionisms, or merely old issues dressed up in new jargon,1997, Derek Edwards, Discourse and Cognition, page 51:
- The futility of dismissing social constructionism in favor of some "real," authentic nature outside the social and linguistic.2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 134:
- Derived terms
- loose constructionism, social constructionism, strict constructionism
- Related terms
- constructionist, constructivism, originalism, textualism