is this same as social constructivism, and is interpretivist same as interactionism?
Answer Hi Maggie, I’ll be glad to help with your question. First, let’s try to organize the jargon. A sociological perspective can be defined as a certain viewpoint or tradition, such as Marxist, Functionalist, or Feminist. One’s perspective is like the windshield through which one views the world, and interprets the information about the world. A paradigm is a specific framework, or model, used to understand a specific point or idea. For example, we might study the development of workplace romance, and our paradigm could be large office buildings of successful companies. In another sense, a paradigm is the particular theoretical lens one is using to interpret data. Social Constructivism – or Constructivism – is a type of symbolic interactionism, the latter is a major sociological perspective. Grounded Theory is a paradigm one uses when engaging in qualitative research. Depending on the goals of your research, Maggie, you may be able to safely dispense with all of these. That is, these
