The Evaluation of Social Action from the Perspective of Social Constructionism

This paper introduces social constructionism as an approach to study political and social sciences. The main approach of this methodology is to concentrate on constructions (and not structures) and meanings (semantic constructs) in the socio-political processes and actions. It inherits the role of structures and functions from structurism and functionalism both of which fail to take into account the socio-political analysis. But social constructivism accentuates everything that creates the meaning, identity and consciousness in political behaviors and phenomena. Considering the methods of this approach, collective and political behaviors as well as phenomena are analyzed on the basis of their meanings and semantic contexts. Therefore, it is necessary to focus on the important elements constructed their meaning frameworks (which leads to action). Such an approach may be considered as an interesting collection of social psychology (with emphasis), phenomenology and finally, discourse analysis.