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Post by aggelosstamos on Nov 25, 2017 1:34:46 GMT
Pragmatism: The attempt to figure out how useful/practical something is rather than how effective it is. Truth not the objective.
Hermeneutics: As a term originally defined the study and interpretation of sacred religious texts. Today meaning generalized to any form of studying and understanding social constructs.
Discourse/Discourse analyses: Discourse is defined as any form verbal communication. Discourse analyses is the study and interpretation of any form of conversation, writing, vocal/sign language etc, but looks beyond the sentence itself in order to find meaning and social constructs.
Agency: Refers to free will. Gergen breaks it down in the context of social construction between light (more agency) and dark (no agency).
Internalisation: How the individual is shaped by social construction.
Externalisation: How the individual shapes social construction
Objectification: The socially accepted definition of any object within a particular society.
Verstehen: The understanding of human behavior and the examination of social phenomena.
Phenomenological: The study/understanding of why phenomena are the way they are to us. In other words trying to identify the way the world appears to be to an individual.
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