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Social Constructionism

Social Constructionism

Catherine Closet-Crane
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 20
ISBN13: 9781466681569|ISBN10: 146668156X|EISBN13: 9781466681576
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8156-9.ch002
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Closet-Crane, Catherine. "Social Constructionism." Information Seeking Behavior and Technology Adoption: Theories and Trends, edited by Mohammed Nasser Al-Suqri and Ali Saif Al-Aufi, IGI Global, 2015, pp. 26-45. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8156-9.ch002

APA

Closet-Crane, C. (2015). Social Constructionism. In M. Al-Suqri & A. Al-Aufi (Eds.), Information Seeking Behavior and Technology Adoption: Theories and Trends (pp. 26-45). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8156-9.ch002

Chicago

Closet-Crane, Catherine. "Social Constructionism." In Information Seeking Behavior and Technology Adoption: Theories and Trends, edited by Mohammed Nasser Al-Suqri and Ali Saif Al-Aufi, 26-45. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8156-9.ch002

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Abstract

This chapter is organized into three main sections that are to provide the reader with a foundation for understanding how Social Constructionism (SC) offers a powerful theoretical lens for studying phenomena in the field of Information Science (IS). The first section defines social constructionism and discusses its fundamental assumptions and characteristics. The second section discusses the historical development of SC as a metatheory in Information Science. In it, the emergence of social constructionism and the theoretical underpinnings and characteristics of SC that are relevant to information science will be reviewed and critiques briefly examined. The last section discusses the implications of a social constructionist perspective for methodologies and research methods for IS research. Closing arguments are made supporting social constructionist approaches to the study of problems and phenomena arising along with the constant evolution of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the globalized information society.

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