Three Versions of Constructionism and their Reliance on Social Conditions in Social Problems Research

Thibodeaux, Jarrett

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“…Therefore, for a better understanding of the issue, we adopted a social constructionist framework, in which emphasis is placed on the role of subjective construction of experience. This perspective is consistent with both of the above theoretical approaches, because its essence is that individuals' meaning-making processes are necessarily inevitably shaped by their everyday interactions and broad social context: immediate, historical, cultural, and ideological (Thibodeaux, 2014).…”

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“…THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK OF THE STUDY Our study was based on an integrative theoretical framework that combined the system model of creativity (Csikszentmihalyi, 1996), the ecological system theory (Bronfenbrenner, 1986), and social constructionist frameworks (Thibodeaux, 2014). The main assumption in the system model of creativity is to shift the focus from creators' individual characteristics to their interaction with the environment and culture.…”

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All You Need Is Love: The Importance of Partner and Family Relations to Highly Creative Individuals’ Well‐Being and Success

Lebuda

Csíkszentmihályi

2018

Journal of Creative Behavior

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The aim of the article was to investigate how the family life of highly creative individuals—mainly marriages or romantic relationships—is related to their sense of success and well‐being. Previous studies have led to conflicting conclusions. The predominant finding has been that marriage and family constitute an obstacle to creative potential development. Other studies have demonstrated that, regardless of gender, creators lead satisfying family lives, which contributes to their well‐being. The study presented in this paper is based on the grounded theory methodology and triangulates two sources: interviews with prominent creators from the USA conducted years ago (Csikszentmihalyi, 1996, N = 91) and interviews with recognized contemporary Polish artists and scientists (N = 34). Based on interactions between the interviewees’ perception of themselves as creators and their perception of gender and family roles, the authors identify and discuss five types of relationship between creators’ family life and work. They also discuss the factors that hinder or facilitate creators’ satisfactory functioning in both areas in each of the five types of relationship.

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All You Need Is Love: The Importance of Partner and Family Relations to Highly Creative Individuals’ Well‐Being and Success

Lebuda

Csíkszentmihályi

2018

Journal of Creative Behavior

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“…The expression Bmoral panic^has been criticised for its derogatory connotations: it suggests that the crime problem is somehow overblown by media exaggeration, leading to a disproportionate response. In doing so, however, it implies that public and official anxieties are without substance or justification (Waddington 1986;Thibodeaux 2014). This contribution does not intend to deny the criminogenic nature of cyberspace, nor minimise the understandable fears of the general public.…”

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Cyber-organised crime. A case of moral panic?

Lavorgna

2018

Trends Organ Crim

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A growing number of studies show that the advent of the Internet has transformed the organisational life of crime, with many academic and non-academic articles and reports describing various types of organisational structures involved in cybercrimes as Borganised crime^. Other researchers are more critical in applying the organised crime label to cybercrimes. These debates are not merely speculative and scholastic but have a real practical significance, as over-estimating organised crime involvement can attract more resources (which might end up being allocated in a less efficient way), additional legal powers, and support from the general public. This study aims to further this path of inquiry by investigating whether the advancement of the cyber-organised crime narrative in the UK can be identified also in the media discourse. More specifically, this study will analyse UK press to explore to what extent Bmoral panic^can be identified, how primary definers use particular tactics and rhetorical constructions, and what are the dominant consequences.

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“…Rather, I contend that certain theoretical assumptions circulating largely in academe offers one source of legitimation—complementing other sources (e.g., rhetoric in politics)—to support the maintenance of fake news. In his critique of social constructionism, Jarrett Thibadeaux () tangentially comments on this matter in his discussion of negative theories. As he states, one version of social constructionism relies on “negative theories [to] make statements about what is not occurring, despite the fact that one cannot directly measure something that is not occurring” (833, emphases in original).…”

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Denying Anthropogenic Climate Change: Or, How Our Rejection of Objective Reality Gave Intellectual Legitimacy to Fake News

Prasad

2019

Sociological Forum

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The political rise of right‐wing populism in the United States, and elsewhere, has prompted a reexamination of theoretical perspectives that oscillate on an unequivocal rejection of objective reality. Indeed, populist campaigns that have acquired wide currency in the last few years have been ontologically predicated on the idea that there exists different “truths.” The premise of different truths has debunked any notion of an objective reality by rendering even the most reified of “facts” to be the outcome of individual subjectivities and ideological subscriptions. Donald Trump’s appeal to “fake news,” for instance, captures the implications that emerge when certain material “facts” become delegitimated in the public arena. The obfuscation of material facts through its entanglements in political discourse raises a timely question concerning theoretical resistance: How can objective reality retain its conceptual and analytical ideations without succumbing to the dangers that objective science historically created for socially marginalized subjects? Contextualizing the denial of anthropogenic climate change as an illustrative case, I answer this question by developing theoretical insights from critical realism and the notion of feminist objectivity. These insights accept the socially constructed nature of an objective reality but refute the idea of value‐free knowledge—that is, it disavows the claim that all representations of knowledge are equally valid and equally valuable.

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Three Versions of Constructionism and their Reliance on Social Conditions in Social Problems Research

Cited by 18 publications

References 21 publications

All You Need Is Love: The Importance of Partner and Family Relations to Highly Creative Individuals’ Well‐Being and Success

All You Need Is Love: The Importance of Partner and Family Relations to Highly Creative Individuals’ Well‐Being and Success

Cyber-organised crime. A case of moral panic?

Denying Anthropogenic Climate Change: Or, How Our Rejection of Objective Reality Gave Intellectual Legitimacy to Fake News

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