Difference between constructivism and interpretivism
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Constructivism emphasizes that knowledge emerges through the individuals' interaction with the environment in the course of experience.
An interpretive approach in the social sciences grows out of the idea that the social world is ontologically different from the natural world, and/or that the social world requires specific methodological tools to be understood. This is outlined below with reference to the ideas of Dilthey, Rickert and Weber. For these thinkers, human interpretations are not subjective irrelevancies that must be screened off in order to observe phenomena and behaviour objectively (as for positivism, logical positivism and realism); human interpretations become critically important in understanding history and society.