Child Abuse and the Legal System

Toward this end, it will be helpful to coordinate constructivist perspectives, informed primarily by cognitive psychology and socioculturalism. How might these perspectives be coordinated? Where constructivists give priority to individual conceptual activity, sociocultural theorists tend to assume that social and cultural processes subsume cognitive processes. Where social constructivists emphasize the homogeneity of thought among the members of the community engaged in shared activity, cognitive constructivists stress heterogeneity of thought as individuals actively interpret social and cultural processes, highlighting the contributions that individuals make to the development of these processes.…