Tag: social construction of reality
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Reality, Shared and Unshared
I deeply appreciated this post by Seth Godin, which outlines a schema for distinguishing “shared objective reality,” “shared cultural reality,” “unshared objective reality,” (think of Copernicus) and “unshared cultural reality” (think of Picasso). His four-fold table arranging shared and unshared by objective reality vs. cultural reality clarifies a lot! I think he simplifies “shared objective…
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“Messaging”
More and more, I read and hear people ridiculing a cluster of “postmodern” ideas: that “reality is socially constructed,” that “language is a political power-play,” that rhetoric molds passionate intensity and conviction along with it. Denying the socially-constructed quality of social reality, and the element of power-play in the meaning of words, seems to have…
Matters of Interpretation 