Well-Being and Mental Health in the Aftermath of Disasters: A Social Constructionist Approach

2018 ◽  
pp. 355-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kumar Ravi Priya
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Constructionist Approach

scholarly journals Why They Know Not What They Do: A Social Constructionist Approach to the Explanatory Problem of False Consciousness

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Social Research ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
False Consciousness ◽  
Constructionist Approach ◽  
In Virtue Of ◽  
General Explanation

Abstract False consciousness requires a general explanation for why, and how, oppressed individuals believe propositions against, as opposed to aligned with, their own well-being in virtue of their oppressed status. This involves four explanatory desiderata: belief acquisition, content prevalence, limitation, and systematicity. A social constructionist approach satisfies these by understanding the concept of false consciousness as regulating social research rather than as determining the exact mechanisms for all instances: the concept attunes us to a complex of mechanisms conducing oppressed individuals to mistake social understandings of themselves as natural self-understandings—the limits lie where these overlap, or are entirely absent.

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