Social Construction of Teenage Pregnancy in the United States: Race‚ Class and Gender In the United States‚ an estimated forty five percent of all female teenagers have premarital sex. As a result‚ about forty percent of all female adolescents become pregnant at least once before age twenty; and about four-fifths of these pregnancies are unintended. Twenty percent of these female adolescents bear a child‚ and about half of them are unmarried (Lawson and Rhode‚ 2). In a society that associates
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Social constructs are a perception of an individual‚ group‚ or idea‚ derived through interactions with others. We all subconsciously agree upon a singular version of reality for social constructs to have any power. However‚ our own personal perceptions are modified by personal experiences. Social constructs predict and determine our behavior and attitude towards a certain subject. The social construct of race depicts cultural differences that we attribute to different “classes” because of what social
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Cultural Constructions: Gender and Marriage/Relationship In many different countries gender and marriages can be totally different from each other‚ including race. That the cultural construction can be influenced and these culture have beliefs on a certain thing. We are socially separated in groups‚ such as norms‚ beliefs‚ values‚ and behaviors. Although some may not have really thought of it there is more than one gender and different ways to get married‚
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Jennifer Berezina ENG 283-T ‚7 pm Exam 1-question 1 How does one define social construction? Well‚ to begin with you can certainly consider gender differences in social construction. When referring to social construction we are looking at ways society defines these characteristics and ideas within different cultures‚ whether it’s the biologically involved or these instances are learned starting at infancy. It’s these social interactions that people act and react to‚ and what is merely accepted by
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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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Race is a social concept used to categorize humans into large and distinct populations or groups by anatomical‚ cultural‚ ethnic‚ genetic‚ geographical‚ historical‚ linguistic‚ religious‚ and/or social affiliation. When it comes to this social concept‚ vision is used‚ which is what one uses to tell themselves that people look different. But‚ one must ask them self‚ how different are people under the skin? That is why racial passing and the lack of a genetic basis both come into play when thinking
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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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Ian F. Haney Lopez‚ author of The Social Construction of Race‚ expresses race in its true lighting. It goes deeper than the color of one’s skin‚ color of one’s eyes‚ the shape of their features‚ and the sound coming off their lips. The freedom of people was all based upon “the characteristics of our hair‚ complexion‚ and facial features” and that they “still influence whether we are figuratively free or enslaved.” There is nothing false that Lopez says. He completely points out the false laws that
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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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Language and the Social Construction of Reality: Spinning Social Reality with Euphemisms Steve Eliason Montana State University‚ Billings ABSTRACT This paper describes an exercise I use in my introductory sociology classes that introduces students to language and the social construction of reality process. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is widely taught in introductory sociology classes and suggests that we perceive the world in terms of our own language‚ and that individual languages produce different
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