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Social Constructionist Approach This is the idea that social processes rather than empirical evidence primarily influence the formation and assessment of theories. Key Concepts of the Social Constructionist Approach Social constructionism looks at science in terms of social processes. It offers a substitute to the objective scientific approach in psychology suggesting that such beliefs are mistakes as there are no objective realities. There is only socially determined knowledge and the investigations of this can be made as the purpose as the supposedly objective sciences. Social representations are one way to study the social constructions of the world. The quest for an objective reality is misleading. "All human life is effort after meaning" as the significance that is placed on experience that is important rather than the experiment itself. Social constructionism proposes that once you accept something then it become subjective. Social constructionists do not believe that it is possible to make observations that are objective and unbiased about people,...

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