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    it’s their character and actions towards other people. You could be quote on quote superior races as in white but that doesn’t make you a better person if you have bad character. Everybody is equal in my opinion. Lastly I explained to her what social construction of race meant and I read off the same article that I read for my eldest sister. Her response to this was: yeah that’s correct. Race doesn’t exist. It’s just the way that we mentally classify people

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    Sanny Zhou Women’s Studies 1020E Prof. Mary Bunch Jen Lasachuk April 2 2012 The Social Construction of Homophobia George Weinberg first coined the term “homophobia” in 1967 (Britton 1) as “a fear of homosexuals which seemed to be associated with a fear of contagion‚ a fear of reducing the things one fought for—home and family” (Herek 7). Regardless of particular standpoints that individuals may hold‚ society as a whole shares the understanding that homosexual desires are taboo and subordinate

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    Class.... Here it is Everyone’s life is affected by social construction. This is the belief that knowledge is determined by society‚ and in turn (knowledge) is formed by the individuals that belong to the society. When an individual thinks of a doctor‚ lawyer‚ priest‚ engineer‚ or manager they usually picture males. While nurses‚ teachers‚ and housewives (emphasis on wives) are purely female professions in our society. This is social constructionist thought on what role a male/female should

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    The Mass Media and Social Construction The mass media industry is implicated in social construction. There are "Ways of Seeing" which serve state-corporate interests at the expense of the interests of the people. This is because there is a direct relationship between the mainstream press and the political economy of state-corporate capitalism in the construction of the false reality. The system of capitalism heavily indoctrinates the population through the mainstream press. The mass media fulfils

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    THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF DRUG SCARES. 1. Craig Reinarman’s article describes how moral entrepreneurs (in America in this instance) take advantage of the law and the middle class group through labeling groups of people who do not conform to their social expectations as deviants. His article briefly describes the key role players of drug scares‚ the motivation that lies behind drug usage and the social context that enhances their development and growth. Background Alcohol and prohibition

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    Social construction; serial killers Kaplan University CJ266 11/20/2010 Professor Ayers Madeline Michell “Social science theory can be very complicated‚ and this gives rise to much disagreement. Nevertheless‚ theory is important‚ and sociologists and criminologists have made great strides in their analyses of criminal behavior and other aspects of criminal justice systems.” (Akers and Sellers_ Pg-97‚ Explanations of Criminal Behavior‚ 2003). Study of our theories in our present society

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    The social construction of race The definition of race is a classification system used to categorize humans into distinct groups. Nothing in that definition discusses or mentions genes‚ biology or proven facts as the reason for this separation; they are all referred to as a category of race. The division of people by race is a socially constructed idea to better organize the population. This categorization has created different groups and forced society to look at the color of the person as an

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    Looking at race through a social construction approach would mean that race is not constructed biologically‚ but through social‚ cultural‚ and economic forces (Klement 1). According to Ian Lopez‚ race is socially constructed (27). Looking throughout history‚ it should be noted that race is a human invention (Lopez 27)‚ but the idea was that external differences also equated to internal differences. Therefore‚ according to the Race: The Power of an Illusion films‚ the fundamental notion was that race

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    Sociologists argue that race is a social construction. This was initially introduced as a way to justify the inequalities that people faced‚ often because of skin color. The minority group is often taken advantage of by the majority group for the obvious reason‚ because they are the majority and

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    of bravery. “The Social Construction of Disability” by Susan Wendell talks about how “the distinction between the biological reality of a disability and the social construction of a disability cannot be made sharply‚ because the biological and the social are interactive in creating disability” (35). The author talks about how society and culture turn an impairment into a disability. On page 36 Susan Wendell says‚ “I see disability as socially constructed in ways ranging from social conditions that

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