Communicative Constructivism and the Empirical Study of Social Reality

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Contributions to a New Theory

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Av Hubert Knoblauch, David Joshua Schröder, Lynn Sibert, Frederike Brandt, Germany) Knoblauch, Hubert (Technische Universitat Berlin, David Joshua Schroder

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This book presents a new range of theoretical and empirical studies dedicated to Communicative Constructivism, a new approach in social theory developed from within the Sociology of Knowledge. Based on Social Constructivism and emerging from German-speaking social sciences, Communicative Constructivism integrates interpretive perspectives, poststructuralist theories, new materialism, actor network theories and Science and Technology studies in a way which provides a systematic yet open theoretical frame for empirical studies. In doing so, it escapes the problems of postmodern arbitrariness of theoretical plurality, and of a too narrowly defined sociality. Instead, it presents clear elaborated theoretical premises and rich empirical studies, inviting an examination of relations to international research within ethnomethodology and interactionism. The theoretical chapters posit Communicative Constructivism within the field of social theories, illustrating its unique approach to subjectivity and helping to define a new field of research, while the empirical chapters ground the theoretical concepts of Communicative Constructivism in analyses across a range of fields from communicative actions, the role of violence, and religion and spirituality, to mediatization and the politics of knowledge. Providing a unique collection of the current state of the theory and serving as the first English-language publication of this kind, its foundational debates, and ongoing research in terms of theory formation and empirical analysis will appeal to scholars and researchers of sociology with interests in social theory, the sociology of knowledge, and the sociology of space.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-02-03
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieKnowledge, Communication and Society
Antal sidor386
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032987903

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Hubert Knoblauch is Professor for General Sociology and Theory of Modern Societies in the Department of Sociology at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. David Joshua Schröder is a Post-doctoral Research Assistant at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. Lynn Sibert is a Phd Student and Research Assistant in General Sociology and Theory of Modern Societies in the Department of Sociology at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. Frederike Brandt is a Phd Student and Research Assistant in General Sociology and Theory of Modern Societies in the Department of Sociology at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.

1. Communicative constructivism: Contributions to a new theory for the empirical study of social re-alityHubert Knoblauch, Lynn Sibert, Frederike Brandt, David Joshua SchröderPart I: Social Theory2. From interpretive sociology to communicative constructivism: Reframing the social construction of reality through communicative actionRené Wilke3. The one-two pass in soccer as a communicative construction: On the sensoriality, materiality and spatiality of the socialSilke Steets4. Subjectivation, embodied: The interiorization of lived relations across communicative situations Boris Traue, Judith Tröndle5. Subjects of space: The communicative construction of spatial subjectivation in colonial urbanismJochen KibelPart II: Methodology6. Communicative genres and the communicative construction of reality from a sociolinguistic per-spectiveBernt Schnettler7. Design games as a sociological approach to material thinkingTilo Grenz, Philipp Knopp8. Constructing movements through communication - Theoretical and methodological implications of communicative constructivism for the study of social movementsNecdet Coskun AldemirPart III: Empirical Contributionsa) Corporeality9. The communicating body: Reflections of the sensual reciprocity of experiences of sexual violenceFrederike Brandt10. From boundaries to blows: The spatiality of the communicative form of street fightsRené Tuma11. Anti-violence training and the communicative construction of violence-related knowledgeEkkehard Coenenb) Subjectivity and collectivity12. How much subject has to be there? Communication with people diagnosed with dementiaJo Reichertz13. “Nel mezzo di un applauso”: Clapping and the collective Forms of communicative actionHubert Knoblauch14. The communicative action of making music together: Revisiting Alfred Schutz’s social theory of music with the help of a video analysis of string ensemblesTheresa Vollmerc) Religion and spirituality15. Communicative constructivism’s potential for the study of contemporary body-based spiritualitiesHenriette Hanky16. Perceiving the self, performing knowledge: Perceptual practices of Islam in communicationMaike Neufendd) Mediatization17. The role of unspoken rules in shaping public discourse: The communicative constructions of Tik Tok and FaceboolMiira Hill18. Scrolling for trust: Communicative forms in science communicationMeike Haken19. Synthetic planning: A communicative constructivist approach to the infrastructuring of digital planning in the AEC industryAjit Singh20. Communicating with machines. Artifical intelligence and the communication societySascha Dickel21. The showing and opening up of meaningMathias Blance) Discourse and politics of knowledge22. Micro-politics of knowledge in the regulation of prostitution in Germany: Case-based observations about the communicative construction and destruction of realityReiner Keller, Lina Brink, Marlen S. Löffler23. Impulses of communicative constructivism for the research of spatial (re-)constructions Gabriela Christmann24. Discourse analysis and discourse events: Notes on a discourse ethnography of communicative events in the Refigured ModernitySezgin Sönmez25. Governance challenges of “research security” and the role of communicative events in “de-risking” Sino-German science cooperation Lynn SibertIndex