The “anything goes” reading mistakes socially constructed knowledge for arbitrary or unevaluable claims. Categories have consequences, and accounts remain open to assessment through evidence, coherence, ethics, and practical effects. Social formation of knowledge does not make its quality irrelevant.
- FamilyModel
- Category of its source unitParadigms, Traditions & Metatheories
- DomainMeaning & Clarity
What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Paradigms, Traditions & Metatheories
Provides a broad intellectual perspective within which multiple concepts, theories or investigations are developed. Traditions carry histories and commitments; metatheories examine how theories themselves are organized or related.