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Social Constructionists: Subjectivist Reasoning For Social Problems

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Lastly, a highly contested debate between social constructionists begins with provocative critiquing. To have a triumphant subjectivist reasoning for social problems, it is argued that, since a subjectivists analyzation is in fact a claims-making activity itself, therefore it incorporates a particular amount relativism and theoretical errors: Subjectivists invoke social constructionists theories about the situational under study but juxtaposes their claims as objective
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