Cambridge Scholars Publishing Social Construction of Reality as Communicative Action

The central focus of this volume is social constructionism in all its dimensions, including its sociological, ontological, epistemological, methodological, ethical, and pragmatic features. It pays particularly close attention to the social construction of reality as a communicative action, extending this area to include social pragmatics. It also interprets social action as a discursive-seductive strategy of exercising power in the public space, utilising a constructionist understanding, in which public space is represented by any part of the co-construction of reality through social or communicative action. In addition, at the methodological level, the book proposes a new semiotic strategy, called “fractal constructionism”, which analyses the interpretative drift of certain key concepts that are valued as social constructs. Review "The reader will be amazed and impressed by the ease with which the author uses and combines, in an original synthesis, different theoretical visions belonging to philosophy, sociology, communication sciences and social work. On the other hand, it leaves a pleasant impression on the way in which Antonio Sandu manages to go from highly professional and in depth theoretical research, to actual research, developed with meticulous methodology and surprising and valuable results in the field of sociology, social work or communication sciences. [...] Professor Sandu’s book is, for the reader, a true intellectual adventure which, obviously, offers special satisfaction."Dan Ioan DascaluAssociate Professor, Stefan cel Mare UniversityRevista Românească pentru Educaţie Multidimensională, 8:2 (2016) About the Author Antonio Sandu, PhD, is Professor at “Stefan cel Mare” University of Suceava, Romania, and Senior Researcher at the LUMEN Research Center in Social and Humanistic Sciences, Romania. His main areas of interest include ethics, bioethics, social work, and social philosophy.