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Sociologie et sociétés

Le contructivisme social en psychologie et en sociologieThe Social Contructivism in Psychology and SociologyHugh MEHAN

Regards sur la théorieVolume 14, Number 2, octobre 1982

URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/001492arDOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/001492ar

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Cite this articleMEHAN, H. (1982). Le contructivisme social en psychologie et en sociologie.Sociologie et sociétés, 14 (2), 77–96. https://doi.org/10.7202/001492ar

Article abstract"Social constructivism" is identified as a theme that is common to cognitivestudies in sociology and psychology. Social constructivism is the principle thatsocial structures and cognitive structures are composed and reside in theinteraction between people. The origins and development of this constructivisttheme in sociology are traced through constitutive phenomenology into earlyethnomethodology. Recent studies that analyze the social structures of theeveryday world in the interaction are reviewed. A parallel development istraced in psychology from Piaget's "constructivist structuralism" throughVygotsky's Soviet Socio-Historical School. Recent studies that locate cognitivestructures and processes in the interaction are reviewed. The convergencebetween sociology and psychology, Western and Soviet social science on theissue of interaction is noted.