Social constructionism, a popular belief system in many humanities departments, “is the epistemology of scholarship in haste, of professors under the gun,” writes Mark Bauerlein, a professor of ...

The Wall Street Journal digs up Elena Kagan's 1983 master's thesis, in which she attacks judicial activism: In the Oxford paper, Ms. Kagan wrote that Supreme Court justices should rest their rulings ...

Like a t-shirt that used to say something you can’t quite read anymore, a piece of terminology will sometimes grow so faded, or be worn so thin, that retiring it seems long overdue. The threadbare ...

Source: De Figuris Veneris by Édouard-Henri Avril (1849-1928), labeled for reuse Wikipedia Imagine it is the year 1965, in frozen Winnipeg, Manitoba. Two twin boys are scheduled for routine ...

Dr. Press discussed behavioral genetics through the lens of social constructionism. She also discussed the phenomenon of medicalization, focusing on the example of smoking as a behavior.To watch Dr.

Pakistan has been on the crossroads of its social, political and economic destiny since the day. It remains trapped in the quagmire of economic stagnation, crumbling public faith on state institutions ...

When he condemned the Supreme Court's decision in Scott v. Sanford – the notorious Dred Scott case – during his second debate with John Kerry, President Bush offered that case as an example of the ...

Despite all this, social constructionism is still alive and well, influencing both the social sciences and public policy. Take a look at this article for example about an elementary school teacher who ...