'Reality' = product of shared perceptions, values, ideas

The material world is clearly important: constructivists not arguing that “reality” is an illusion; arguing that the reality that surrounds us is not merely a product of purely objective (or material) forces, but is essentially a product of our shared perceptions, values, ideas, and understanding.

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D. Intersubjectivity
Materiality
'Reality' = product of shared perceptions, values, ideas
Ideational factors give meaning to the material world & our politics
Ideas & beliefs about material factors are most important
Social facts (sovereignty) distinguished from 'brute facts (rocks)
Social world =shared ideational factors + material factors
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