Skip to main content

Lund University Publications

LUND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Social Constructionist Theory

Heide, Mats LU orcid (2024)
Abstract
The basis of social constructionist theory is a dismiss of the still dominating belief in an objective reality and the idea that researchers in social science should and can conduct investigation following the norms of natural science ending up with “objective facts”. Instead, social constructionist theory propagates for a socially constructed reality where meanings are developed and produced in collaboration with others rather than separately within each individual. In corporate communication research communication is all too often taken for granted and perceived as a variable that changes objective phenomenon in reality or is reduced to transmission of information. The social constructionist theory suggests that communication produce and... (More)
The basis of social constructionist theory is a dismiss of the still dominating belief in an objective reality and the idea that researchers in social science should and can conduct investigation following the norms of natural science ending up with “objective facts”. Instead, social constructionist theory propagates for a socially constructed reality where meanings are developed and produced in collaboration with others rather than separately within each individual. In corporate communication research communication is all too often taken for granted and perceived as a variable that changes objective phenomenon in reality or is reduced to transmission of information. The social constructionist theory suggests that communication produce and reproduce organizations, and that organization and communication are mutually interdependent. (Less)
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
author
organization
publishing date
type
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
publication status
published
subject
host publication
The Encyclopaedia of Corporate Communication
editor
Podnar, Klement
publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing
external identifiers
  • scopus:85195903881
ISBN
978 1 80220 086 7
DOI
10.4337/9781802200874.ch05
language
English
LU publication?
yes
id
7a4dc958-c3ff-45d8-b702-f681f63b1f6d
date added to LUP
2021-11-24 22:17:09
date last changed
2024-09-11 15:24:58
@inbook{7a4dc958-c3ff-45d8-b702-f681f63b1f6d,
  abstract     = {{The basis of social constructionist theory is a dismiss of the still dominating belief in an objective reality and the idea that researchers in social science should and can conduct investigation following the norms of natural science ending up with “objective facts”. Instead, social constructionist theory propagates for a socially constructed reality where meanings are developed and produced in collaboration with others rather than separately within each individual. In corporate communication research communication is all too often taken for granted and perceived as a variable that changes objective phenomenon in reality or is reduced to transmission of information. The social constructionist theory suggests that communication produce and reproduce organizations, and that organization and communication are mutually interdependent.}},
  author       = {{Heide, Mats}},
  booktitle    = {{The Encyclopaedia of Corporate Communication}},
  editor       = {{Podnar, Klement}},
  isbn         = {{978 1 80220 086 7}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  publisher    = {{Edward Elgar Publishing}},
  title        = {{Social Constructionist Theory}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781802200874.ch05}},
  doi          = {{10.4337/9781802200874.ch05}},
  year         = {{2024}},
}