Volume 5, Number 3 · 15 July 2010 < Previous Paper · Next Paper > Just Another Label or Substantial Theoretical Integration? Review of “Interaktionistischer Konstruktivismus. Zur Systemtheorie der Sozialisation” by Tilmann Sutter. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden, 2009 Armin Scholl Citation: Constructivist Foundations 5(3): 158–160 Free full text: PDF Version

Abstract

Upshot: Sutter’s interactionist constructivism claims to remedy the shortcomings of radical constructivism. The author integrates radical constructivist ideas, the theory of social systems, the theory of social constitution, and developmental psychological approaches in order to understand and explain processes of individual socialization. Although this effort is ambitious and works very well in a pragmatic sense, it lacks a meta-theory for integrating theories. Moreover, the mutual criticism of these four theories is not always convincing.

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