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	Social - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The adjective "social" implies that the verb or noun to which it is applied is somehow more communicative, cooperative, and moderated by contact with human beings, than if it were omitted.
		For instance terms like social realism, social justice, social constructivism, social psychology and social capital imply that there is some social process involved or considered, a process that is not there in regular, "non-social", realism, justice, constructivism, psychology, or capital.
		An example is quasi-empiricism in mathematics which is sometimes labelled social constructivism by those who see it as an unwarranted intrusion of social considerations in mathematical practice, which is supposed to be "objective" and "above" social concerns.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Social (238 words)

	Encyclopedia: Social constructivism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Constructivism recognizes that all our knowledge is "constructed," it does not reflect any external "transcendent" realities, but is contingent on convention, human perception, and social experience.
		Social constructivism is a form of constructivism based on the sociological and social psychological concept of social constructionism.
		Ernst von Glasersfeld is the prominent proponent of this form of constructivism.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Social-constructivism (517 words)

	Empiricism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is generally regarded as being at the heart of the modern scientific method, that our theories should be based on our observations of the world rather than on intuition or faith; that is, empirical research and a posteriori inductive reasoning rather than purely deductive logic.
		Empirical is an adjective often used in conjunction with science, both the natural and social sciences, which means the use of working hypotheses which are capable of being disproved using observation or experiment (ie: ultimately through experience).
		There are many forms of constructivism, such as social constructivism and cultural constructivism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Empiricism (1002 words)

	ipedia.com: Social Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		For instance terms like social realism, social justice, social constructivism, social psychology and social capital imply that there is some social process is involved or considered that is not there in regular, "non-social", realism, justice, constructivism, psychology, or capital.
		It is sometimes applied in right-wing politics as a pejorative, that is, to imply that the idea or concept is inferior for having undergone this social process, which might be seen to be compromising.
		What is not social is thus defined to be "bad" or at least to be investigated carefully before being accepted as truth or worthy of trust.
	www.ipedia.com /social.html (301 words)

	The Institute for Research on Unlimited Love
		The central idea of the model is that close others and those in one’s social groups function in a sense as part of oneself; the regard and caring that one usually experiences for oneself is thereby extended to close others.
		Led by the sociologist Robert Wuthnow, this study is part of a larger community study of the social agencies and churches in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania.
		We have found, along with other social scientists that among the motivating factors to help, apologize, and forgive are religiosity/spirituality, empathy, social responsibility, and other factors that we have reported in a larger study.
	www.unlimitedloveinstitute.org /grant/index.html (14338 words)

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