Social Constructionist Argumentative Analysis

On the other hand, the distributed self would suggest that how people experience the world and make sense of it is primarily a result of socio-cultural processes, which varies over time and space. Constructionists conceptualize depression as an identity continually renegotiated via linguistic exchange and social performance. They would argue that the biological attitude excludes the social and linguistic dimensions of experience from consideration; social constructionist perspective is essential to understand how subjectivity and meaning are constructed in language and social interaction. For example I will briefly discuss the argument of gender differences in depression and how social constructionists consider that through looking at the ‘material discursive’ practices it is the pressures of society, which causes depression. They argue that a certain pressure is thrust upon women to be doing activities that fits the ideology of being a ‘good woman’ this can exhaust the woman’s body therefore causing depression. However it ignores the ability for people to be able to choose and suggests that this is all an illusion.
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combined treatments are more effective in depressed outpatients, as well as in depressed older adults (Cuijpers, 2012). A central assumption within this broad approach is that reality is not waiting to be discovered, but instead it is a product of human activity. However it could a mixture of all approaches but it just depends on which view you view the ‘self’, depression I personally think is a mixture of your environment and the society we live in but it is also biological as it can also form physical symptoms. Both treatments should be used to suit individuals to see which suits them best. This is useful because it works for a wide range of people and knowing this information from both approaches can help save millions of lives each