constructivist en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree English constructive Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English constructivist From constructive + -ist.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of or relating to constructivism.
Social norm scholarship in criminal law, I would suggest, is best understood as a type of constructivist social theory. The emerging literature attempts to explain behavior by focusing on shared interpretations of social practice.
2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order:The importance of this constructivist perspective, as opposed to a theory of sexual essentialism which posits sexuality as biologically determined, is that it allows us to think about sex within a social, historical and cultural context. We can ask questions which recognize the importance of our sexual preference, our class, our race
1985 February 2, Janice Irvine, Sue Hyde, “The Discourse and the Action”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 28, page 8:
Translations (3)
fi konstruktivistinen (of or relating to constructivism) · it costruttivistico (of or relating to constructivism) · nl constructivistisch (of or relating to constructivism)