There is tremendous debate among Constructivists over whether and how they are committed to social science.
Still, there is some common ground . To begin, they reject the unity of science thesis, that is, that the methods of the natural sciences are appropriate for understanding the social world.
Instead, they argue that the objects of the natural world and the social world are different in one crucial respect: in the social world the subject knows herself through reflection upon her actions as a subject not simply of experience but of intentional actioj as well. Humans reflect on their experiences and use these experiences to inform their reasons for their behaviour.
Atoms do not. What necessitates a humam science, therefore, is the need to understand how individuals give significance and meaning to their actions. Only then will we be able to explain human action. Consequently, the human sciences require methods that can capture the interpretations that actors bring to their activities. Max Weber, a leading advocate of this position, advocated that scholars employ vershten to recreate how people understand and interpret the world. To do so, scholsrs need to exhibit empathy , to locatr the practice within the collectivity so that one knows how this practice or activity counts,and to unify these individual experiences into objectively, though time-bound, explanations (Ruggie 1998:860)