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The paper compares Pierre Bourdieu's sociological approach with the one developed by Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann. The aim of the paper is to identify the complementarities and incongruences of these approaches. The main similarity consists in the intention to "dialectically" overcome/bridge the gap between "objectivism" and "subjectivism" in social theory. Another parallel includes a negative attitude towards the relativistic tendencies of postmodernism. These authors share the thematization of: the body as a locus of social influences, the centrality of language in social life, the social functions of knowledge, and the importance of power in social relations. Differences in theorizing are attributed to the different intellectual, theoretical, and socio-cultural contexts in which these scientists operated. The divergences of these theoretical approaches become evident when one examines the different meaning and significance attached to the concepts of individuation, structure, action, habitus and habitualization, structure of relevance and relation of common-sense and scientific knowledge. Finally, there is a visible difference in political views: Bourdieu was a critic "from the left," while Berger and Luckmann were self-proclaimed liberal conservatives. ; U radu se poredi sociološki pristup Pjera Burdijea sa onim koji su razvili Peter Berger i Tomas Lukman. Cilј rada je da se identifikuju komplementarnosti i razilaženja ovih pristupa. Glavna sličnost se sastoji u nameri da se "dijalektički" prevaziđe/premosti jaz između "objektivizma" i "subjektivizma" u društvenoj teoriji. Druga paralela uključuju negativan stav prema relativističkim tendencijama postmodernizma. Ono što je zajedničko za ove autore je tematizacija: tela kao mesta društvenih uticaja, centralnosti jezika u društvenom životu, društvenih funk cija znanja i značaja moći u društvenim odnosima. Razlike u teoretisanju se pripisuju različi tim intelektualnim, teorijskim i socio-kulturnim kontekstima u kojima su ovi naučnici delovali. Razilaženja ...

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Interactive interdisciplinarity and human lived reality -- Social constructivism and biologist essentialism? -- Chapter 1: From interpellated subjecthood to recognized vulnerability -- On the human being, or becoming -- Gendered to be human -- Performativity and human identity -- Relationality and the constitution of humanity -- The problematic body -- Actions -- Judith Butler and the person -- Desire and personhood -- Recognition, personhood and grievability -- Chapter 2: Being human nature -- Language: window to human nature -- Nature/nurture -- Unique environment -- Genes, personality and behavior -- Computationalism and the individual -- Webbed causality -- The individual and human nature -- Death of the self again? -- Openness and relationality in evolutionary psychology? -- Chapter 3: Persons becoming in relations -- Ontology of the person -- Relationality, space and freedom -- Personalist and relational theological anthropology -- The divine and the human -- The triune Creator and the anthropological significance of Christ -- Embodied human persons -- "spirit," sin and the question of ethics -- Chapter 4: Going beyond: relationality, evolutionary theory and time -- Establishing a weak ontology of relationality -- Re-reading the theory of evolution -- Evolution as performativity -- Time matters -- The reality of body -- Chapter 5: Kenotic personalism -- Primacy of "person"? -- Kenosis, vulnerability and persons: the significance of self-giving relations -- Relation, mediation, interpellation -- Called in time -- The Gift of Vulnerability -- The giving between persons -- Kenosis and feminism -- Kenosis and resistance -- The gift of freedom -- The most vulnerable? -- Conclusion: persons, individuals and institutions -- AI: artificial individualism? -- Disclosing the nature/nurture problem.

The Space Age is over? Not at all! A new planet has appeared: Earth. In the age of the Anthropocene, the Earth is a post-natural planet that can be remade at will, controlled and managed thanks to the prowess of geoengineering. This new imaginary is also accompanied by a new kind of power, geopower, which takes the entire Earth, in its social, biological and geophysical dimensions, as an object of knowledge, intervention, and governmentality. Far from merely being the fruit of the spirit of geo-capitalism, this new grand narrative has been championed by the theorists of the constructivist turn (be them ecomodernist, postenvironmentalist, or accelerationist to name a few) who have also called into question the great divide between nature and culture

This volume traces the roots of the constructivist turn in the distinct (and competing) traditions of Continental and Anglo-American Western political thought. Divided into three thematic parts, these 13 newly commissioned essays develop the constructivist turn as a central concept. They advance the insight that there can be no democratic politics without representation; constituencies or groups exist as agents of democratic politics only insofar as they are represented

Explores the application of constructivist theory to international relations. The text examines the relevance of constructivism for empirical research, focusing on some of the key issues of contemporary international politics: ethnic and national identity; gender; and political economy.

Constructivism's basic premise - that individuals and groups are shaped by their world but can also change it - may seem intuitively true. This book lays out concepts and tools for those seeking to apply the constructivist approach in research. It is intended for those trying to sort out appropriate methods for empirical research.

In den aktuellen Debatten der Sozialen Arbeit sind systemische und konstruktivistische Überlegungen etabliert. In diesem Kontext finden sich Positionen die der Individualisierung jeglicher Verantwortung das Wort zu reden scheinen. Dem wird hier als ein spezifischer systemisch-konstruktivistischer Ansatz der Relationale Konstruktivismus entgegen gestellt, der die für die Soziale Arbeit notwenige Betrachtung der Subjekte in ihren Umwelten (person in environment) ermöglicht. Dies ist zugleich ein Plädoyer für eine relationale Soziale Arbeit, die weiterhin die Zuständigkeit für die Beachtung und Bearbeitung der Schnittstelle zwischen Individuum und Gesellschaft behält. Der von Björn Kraus vertretene erkenntnistheoretische Ansatz des Relationalen Konstruktivismus mag eine mögliche Antwort auf die auch für eine relationale Soziale Arbeit notwendige Frage nach deren erkenntnistheoretischen Voraussetzungen liefern und zu einem sprachlichen und analytischen Instrumentarium beitragen, das für eine professionelle Praxis genutzt werden kann. Das wird im Rahmen des Beitrags exemplarisch an den Kategorien der Lebenswelt und der Lebenslage, sowie der Macht erörtert.

Résumé Dans un contexte historique caractérisé par la crise des grands récits de la modernité, le philosophe juriste doit retrouver sa vocation : le réalisme. La philosophie doit réouvrir les yeux sur le monde et abandonner la superbe de l'idéalisme moderne qui réduit l'expérience à l'objet de la pensée ou du langage. Villey fournit des éléments utiles pour une critique du constructivisme en vue d'un retour au sens authentique du droit. L'essence du droit ne se déduit pas a priori de la raison, comme ensemble de principes de droit naturel métahistoriques ; elle s'incarne dans la matérialité vivante de l'expérience juridique. Dans le sillage d'Aristote et de Saint Thomas, Villey pense le droit dans un horizon dialectique : le droit est produit de la raison dans l'histoire, effort sans fin d'une détermination du juste à travers chaque cas concret, et fondée sur de « bonnes » raisons et des arguments persuasifs.

This volume of essays brings together John Gerard Ruggie's most influential theoretical ideas and their application to critical policy questions concerning the post-Cold War international order.

"Countering the growing divide between positivists who embrace quantitative, numerical approaches and post-positivist scholars who favor qualitative, interpretive approaches, J. Samuel Barkin and Laura Sjoberg argue that both methods are more widely adaptable than is commonly assumed by either camp. In Interpretive Quantification, ten highly regarded scholars in the field of International Relations apply quantitative methods and formal models to specific constructivist and critical research questions. In this way, each chapter serves not only as evidence that methods can productively be applied across paradigms, but also as a guide as to how this may be done. In sum, the contributors make a compelling case that when researchers cordon off particular methods for merely ideological reasons, they circumscribe their own paradigms and hinder their own research agenda"--

The Social Construction of Europe systematically introduces and applies a social constructivist perspective to the study of European integration. A strong international list of contributors provide new and important insights to a key area of contemporary study and research.

"In der Wirtschaftsethik stehen systemethische Ansätze in den unterschiedlichsten Varianten im Mittelpunkt der Diskussion. Mit dem Begriff Systemethik sollen solche Ansätze bezeichnet werden, die versuchen, im Rahmen einer Ethik den Blick, anstatt auf das Individuum, auf die formalen Bedingungen, innerhalb derer Individuen handeln bzw. sich verständigen, zu richten. Dennoch ist die Rolle des Individuums in diesem Zusammenhang jeweils sehr unterschiedlich zu sehen, was anhand einiger Beispiele diskutiert wird. Anschließend wird die systemethische Perspektive mit einer konstruktivistisch-systemischen konfrontiert, und zwar sowohl auf der institutionellen als auch auf der individuellen Ebene, was zu einer Erweiterung bezüglich dreier Aspekte führt." (Autorenreferat)