Abstract

The article analyzes cultural constructivism as one of the ways of a conceptual representation of historical reality. The connection between cultural constructivism as an epistemological position and cultural predication as a procedure of historical discourse is substantiated. The main focus is on the constructive function of cultural prediction in historical discourse. Constructivism as the position, behind which reality is the construction of consciousness is opposed to realism – the position in which thought or language reflect objectively existing and independent of consciousness reality. When constructed reality corresponds to objective reality, constructivism acquires thе status of constructive realism. The classification of constructivism was proposed, according to which it is divided into epistemological, social and cultural. It is noted that cultural constructivism and cultural predication form the constructivist paradigm of historical discourse.