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constructivists

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  • noun Plural form of constructivist.

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Examples

  • So for "constructivists," the dynamics of the two controversies would not be surprising: everything is socially constructed, including incidents of global significance.

    Peter Henne: The Social Construction of Controversy 2010

  • Aapko hamse "constructive mail" ki tawakko hai to aapko ye bhi zaahir kar deN ki hum kisi Nehruvian sense meiN "constructivists" nahiN haiN.

    Kafila 2009

  • This show pairs photographs documenting the architecture of glass and smooth white concrete created in the late-20s and 30s with paintings by leading constructivists.

    This week's new exhibitions 2011

  • Unlike some other contemporary museums that seem to include art as an afterthought, Hadid was not afraid to bow to her colleagues on the other side of the aisle, having been herself an acolyte of the Russian constructivists Malevich and Kandinsky at the Architectural Association school in London.

    Patricia Zohn: Off the C(H)uff: Zaha Hadid and Her MAXXI Museum in Rome 2010

  • Hard-line social constructivists – and there are a few of them about!

    Don’t panic 2008

  • Hard-line social constructivists – and there are a few of them about!

    Notes for the Feminist Activist Forum’s transgender and intersex learning exchange 2008

  • Words mean things, and they mean what they mean in their essential concepts for far longer than the constructivists want to acknowledge:

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The proper understanding of “Necessary and Proper”: 2009

  • For constructivists, therefore, as for those who are willing to countenance second-order axiomatizations of set theory,

    Skolem's Paradox Bays, Timothy 2009

  • The new social constructivism, feminist critiques of science, ongoing criticism of Kuhn's views, their sloppy application by outsiders, and the wider cultural unease caused by the Vietnam War helped to ignite the so-called Science Wars that pitted neo-Enlightenment epistemological realists against the social constructivists and other postmodernists, who often contended, in a relativist or constructivist debunking mode, that the sciences had no more cultural authority than any other human endeavor.

    Scientific Revolutions Nickles, Thomas 2009

  • Faure (constructivists, though the latter hedges a bit) and to Forman (purist). close window

    Notes on 'Kafka and the Coincidence of Opposites' 2007

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