By working with social constructionsm you also reject cognitivism. Cognitivism claims that a sentence or proposition can be either truth of false. But when working with social constructionism you acknowledge that the truth is relative and is created by language and narratives in social relations. The truth only exists to the extend that all people in a certain relation acknowledge it as being the truth.
In the same way social constructionism also rejects behaviourism that claims that human behavior can be researched scientifically excluding the mind. Behaviourism claims that all human actions are determined by outside forces. According to social constructionism the researcher has to take part in a social relation to understand it.
In other words cognitivism and behaviourism are based in the individual mind while social constructionism is based on a holistic view that emphasizes the relations among people.
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