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Educational constructivism extended the realism-empiricism dichotomy into how individuals learn, and assumed two main forms (19) (i) personal constructivism, which is associated with Piaget (5) and (ii) social-cultural constructivism which is linked to Vygotsky. Piagetian constructivism is associated with an idealized person (the epistemic subject ). On die other hand, according to Vygotsky (20), the learner constructs actively his/her knowledge, but this process is greatly assisted by interactions with peers and with the teacher who acts at the students zone of proximal development. 

A further divide between risk analysts arises between realism and constructionism, but this debate can be seen as unifying positivist and relativist approaches. Constructionism considers how social and cultural perspectives influence risk definitions and interpretations [12]. In comparison, realists exclude social and cultural phenomena in their reference of risk, but do acknowledge their existence [12]. Constructionism resembles constrained relativism and does not represent the paradigms of the unconstrained relativists. For positivists and realists, acknowledging risk perceptions provides a potential framework to incorporate the risk perceptions into their process of risk analysis because risk perceptions can be subject to scientific analysis as social phenomena. 

Dunning, D. D., and Story, A. L (1991), "Depression, realism, and the over-confidence effect Are the sadder wiser when predicting future actions and events " journal of Personality and Social Psychology 6i, 512-52. 

For advanced students Write an interpretation of a major nineteenth-century novel, discussing the features of the novel that reflect the conventions of the genre in that time period. Explore social realism in Charles Dickens Great Expectations or David Copperfield, William Makepeace Thackeray s moral stance in Vanity Fair, or Jane Austen s social commentary in Emma. 

Young, M. F. D. (2008). Bringing knowledge back in from social constructivism to social realism in the sociology of education. London Routledge. 

Sayer, A. 2001 Realism and Social Science. Sage Publications. 

Classic realism may support the dominant ideology by [...] posing problems too limited or too easily resolved to be significant [...] presenting social contradictions in terms of psychological conflicts [...] or representing reality and human nature as ahistorical, eternal, or essentially unchanging. (Spencer, 1992, p. 5)... 

PB I d always thought that this play and its final scene is not social realism. Understandably perhaps the critics of the original production did talk about the play in precisely those terms. 

SH I ve done quite a lot of those plays that are much closer to social realism, but have that poetry about them like David Storey s work. 

PB You can understand in that context why critics and audiences thought, well, it must be social realism. 

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