Communicative Constructivism and the Empirical Study of Social Reality

1. Communicative constructivism: Contributions to a new theory for the empirical study of social re-ality
Hubert Knoblauch, Lynn Sibert, Frederike Brandt, David Joshua Schroeder

Part I: Social Theory

2. From interpretive sociology to communicative constructivism: Reframing the social construction of reality through communicative action
Rene Wilke

3. The one-two pass in soccer as a communicative construction: On the sensoriality, materiality and spatiality of the social
Silke Steets

4. Subjectivation, embodied: The interiorization of lived relations across communicative situations
Boris Traue, Judith Troendle

5. Subjects of space: The communicative construction of spatial subjectivation in colonial urbanism
Jochen Kibel

Part II: Methodology

6. Communicative genres and the communicative construction of reality from a sociolinguistic per-spective
Bernt Schnettler

7. Design games as a sociological approach to material thinking
Tilo Grenz, Philipp Knopp

8. Constructing movements through communication - Theoretical and methodological implications of communicative constructivism for the study of social movements
Necdet Coskun Aldemir

Part III: Empirical Contributions
a) Corporeality

9. The communicating body: Reflections of the sensual reciprocity of experiences of sexual violence
Frederike Brandt

10. From boundaries to blows: The spatiality of the communicative form of street fights
Rene Tuma

11. Anti-violence training and the communicative construction of violence-related knowledge
Ekkehard Coenen

b) Subjectivity and collectivity

12. How much subject has to be there? Communication with people diagnosed with dementia
Jo Reichertz

13. "Nel mezzo di un applauso": Clapping and the collective Forms of communicative action
Hubert Knoblauch

14. The communicative action of making music together: Revisiting Alfred Schutz's social theory of music with the help of a video analysis of string ensembles
Theresa Vollmer

c) Religion and spirituality

15. Communicative constructivism's potential for the study of contemporary body-based spiritualities
Henriette Hanky

16. Perceiving the self, performing knowledge: Perceptual practices of Islam in communication
Maike Neufend

d) Mediatization

17. The role of unspoken rules in shaping public discourse: The communicative constructions of Tik Tok and Facebool
Miira Hill

18. Scrolling for trust: Communicative forms in science communication
Meike Haken

19. Synthetic planning: A communicative constructivist approach to the infrastructuring of digital planning in the AEC industry
Ajit Singh

20. Communicating with machines. Artifical intelligence and the communication society
Sascha Dickel

21. The showing and opening up of meaning
Mathias Blanc

e) Discourse and politics of knowledge

22. Micro-politics of knowledge in the regulation of prostitution in Germany: Case-based observations about the communicative construction and destruction of reality
Reiner Keller, Lina Brink, Marlen S. Loeffler

23. Impulses of communicative constructivism for the research of spatial (re-)constructions
Gabriela Christmann

24. Discourse analysis and discourse events: Notes on a discourse ethnography of communicative events in the Refigured Modernity
Sezgin Soenmez

25. Governance challenges of "research security" and the role of communicative events in "de-risking" Sino-German science cooperation
Lynn Sibert

Index