Discussion Board 1 Name Institution Date There is a difference between race as socially constructed and race as biologically constructed. Understanding race as a social construct is critical to understanding the capacity of a given race to affect and intersect other domains and aspect of life and the society (Omi & Winant‚ 2014). A social construct is ontologically subjective in that the continued existence and construction of social constructs depends on social groups as well as their imposition
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A social construction or social construct is any institutionalized entity or artifact in a social system "invented" or "constructed" by participants in a particular culture or society that exists because people agree to behave as if it exists or follow certain conventional rules. One example of a social construct is social status. Social constructionism is a school of thought which deals with detecting and analyzing social constructions. Emile Durkheim first theorized about social construction
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In the article “The Socially Constructed Body‚” Judith Lorber explains insights from Feminist theory that discuss how men and women in a society transform their own bodies to look a particular way in order to achieve the physical image that complies with what society believes is properly “masculine” or “feminine.” She illustrates how these “normal” gender images are not common because they are biologically true‚ but because society has constructed them. Though some aspects are obviously biological
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Think Piece Sociological Significance and Individual Behavior What is the relationship between “definition of the situation” and “socially – constructed reality”? Our social construct provides us with basic assumptions of everyday life. These social influences have an affect on our perception of reality and situations. While with a group of people you mainly hang out with the definition of a situation of a situation will be similar‚ because you all are from the same social group:
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differences. As they wrote about these places‚ explorers classified these people as a different race because theses people were so different from themselves. As history went on these race classifiers were used again an again. From this race was constructed. We as humans use our sense of sight more than any other sense but our sight is limited. All that the sight of an untrained eye can see is differences. I do not believe we indented to define race but it just manifested from trying to classify something
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thought of differently than it ever was before. With so many mixes out there it is almost impossible to guess a person’s race based solely on appearance. Race is not something we can see or even prove scientifically. In modern terms‚ “race is a socially constructed category composed of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of society consider important.” (Farrell 2012). Which means race is something made up by humans to categorize people who share biological traits. In a scientific
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Access the view that youth is socially constructed. There are many different views on how youth is constructed. Biologists believe that youth is created by biological changes that are occurring‚ as we get older. They believe that our attitudes and behaviour changes due to biological reasons. Biologists say that teens are restless and unsure about their identity due to the hormonal changes in their bodies. However‚ sociologists believe that childhood is shaped by the culture and the society in
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particular persuasion or we admire or despair of our own qualities we have ingrained perceptions and beliefs about the nature of the self‚ of ourselves. The importance of culture and context in understanding the processes by which people come to describe‚ explain or account for the world and themselves is described as social constructionism. The theory of social constructionism contrasts with theories of psychodynamic perspectives and essentialism that suggest that our representations of ourselves are based
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‘Examine the ways in which childhood can be said to be socially constructed’ A social construct is an idea or concept that has been created and defined within society. Many sociologists argue that childhood is a social construct‚ as it isn’t a fixed‚ universal idea‚ and differs in different areas and time periods- they believe that childhood as we know it is a recent phenomenon. Aries argues that in the Middle Ages ‘the idea of childhood did not exist’. Within modern Western society children
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Social Identities are Socially Constructed Over the long history of our species‚ human beings have developed complex forms of identity‚ which makes it possible to interact and live together‚ says British Philosopher Kwame A. Appiah. Globalization has also seen new forms of differences amongst human beings generated all the time. Much before the 1960’s there were many identities that did not exist that we see in society today‚ such as Scientologists‚ punks‚ hip hop and so forth. These different identities
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