Theory in Action: Constructivism

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1. This is great! Really gave me a better understanding of the theory.
2. By far the most complex and difficult to understand of the main IR theories, also the one that is most quickly dismissed by many people.
3. Great video! Very simple and to the point
4. this man speaks my language
5. My professor sent this as an email to all of the students and I feel bad for any of them who ignored it. This helped me so much
6. This is the best educational video I've ever watched. Informative, yet short and simple. With loads of examples. Thank you very much!
7. I thought Constructivism was about science and scientific theories?
8. I feel sad when he says the United States doesn't exist anymore :(
9. Than you very much, a very good video.
10. This is profoundly helpful ! I think I just converted to a Constructivist from a Realist, but I still have reservations... This dude uses the example of Obama changing the rules the world is based on, but isn't that because he is the embodiment of a strong state already? Surely Realism has some credence then ?
11. Thank you Professor Gallemore. You totally saved me from a very confused research class this entire semester. :)
12. When you say "I don't go out and just talk to any random person in an other state, I talk to the person in authority" that type of constructivism is more like Wendt's top down approach of the System influencing the actors.... But other constructivists would argue that the bottom up approach exists too. Actors can influence the state. By actors I mean non gov't actors. then you have the other constructivists who say both happen simultaneously... So I mean say I go to Spain blow some smoke up some Spaniard but hole and he eats my shit up like popcorn. What is to say he doesn't start re iterating what I told him to his friends and then what ever I told him spreads like wild fire... all of a sudden you see a change in the system based on what ever you felt like telling the guy. Though highly unlikely for this to happen and the circumstances and setting must be perfect... Your point of view does spread and have a rippling affect... Then of course the System and the Actors (in a modern democratic state) tend to keep themselves in check as to avoid jumping the gun on any low level politics or high level politics, but now I fear I'm going on a tangent.
    
    REFOCUS: I believe, based on what you said after your Neo Matrix movie example, that your ideology takes a more system down approach... and this does not reflect all of constructivism, but just a part of it.
    
    Please correct me if I'm wrong in thinking so and explain why. Much appreciated.
13. It seems to me that constructivism is, to a certain extent, inspired by the philosophy of existentialism. There is recognition that choices are arbitrary and an appreciation that in subtle ways, human groups' existence precedes their essence.
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15. thank you.
16. Wonderful video!!!!! Very clear and accurate information.
17. This seriously helped me for my Constructivism essay in college, thank you!
18. This is pretty much what the Buddha preached, "its all in your mind". Is this constructivism or no?
19. Can someone help me understand? I understand that states do not appear in nature, and it exists completely in the human mind. That doesn't mean that it isn't real, it's just not the same kind of real as a piece of pie. As soon as people think it exists then it does, in the minds of those people. Therefore the power is also theirs to be rid of the state through their minds. Again I don't see this underlying principle as taking anything away from the reality or meaning of the state.
20. This is Sam from Game of Thrones