Keeping Perspective, Reflective

I believe, that out of all the ism's we have studied so far in this class, Constructivism serves to be the most relevant. We all know the world is constantly in flux and no one theory will answer everything. Constructivism, however, differentiates itself from the rest through its relevance to social evolution and uniqueness. It does not try to force laws onto our social reality through a top down observational process, rather it sees basic relationships and builds upon them from bottom to top.

In my group discussions this week we all came to agreement on this and believed that Constructivism is a great tool for understanding what is going on in society and IR, but that prognostication is still difficult because its laws do not claim to dictate human behavior. I believe that commonalities can be perceived and that educated predictions can be made none the less. I understand it is a different way of managing life and society, but I believe, in the end it is a better method. It lends itself to quicker adaptation due to necessity for it. Without it, Constructivism could not be viable.

It also requires a great amount of mutual cooperation and understanding between all peoples, internationally and domestically. An understanding of perspectives and comprehension of the relativity of truth is essential. A new discourse must be created for this endeavor to be successful, wasteful definitions and concepts will have to be abandoned. This is possible because it is a social necessity, it will happen because eventually we will have no other choice, but to be more reasonable. It is time to stop making social decisions on short term interests and start acting and listening to those who look beyond themselves.