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    The social construction framework was proposed by Schneider and Ingram in 1993 and sought to explain the allocation of burdens and benefits to different groups of people in society based on their power and social construction‚ that is “the cultural characterizations or popular images of the persons or groups affected by the public policy.” In this essay‚ I will be evaluating the social construction framework on various levels of analysis and explain why I think this framework is effective in explaining

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    Social Contructionism In chapter 2 of Surette‚ Social constructionism is a sociological theory of knowledge that consist how social objects of consciousness work in social contexts. There is often a debate about whether something is "real" or if it’s "merely" a social construct. For instance‚ If you believe social constructions aren’t real‚ then please take out all the bills in your wallet and pass them up to me. Money is an example of a social construction that plays an extremely important

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    For this week’s reading memo‚ I will be looking at The Social Construction of Gender by Judith Lorber‚ and Getting Off and Getting Intimate: How Normative Institutional Arrangements Structure Black and White Fraternity Men’s Approaches toward Women by Rashawn Ray and Jason A. Rasow. In The Social Construction of Gender‚ the most obvious argument lies within the title of the reading itself‚ Lorber is arguing that gender is a social construct yet still has an effect on people’s lives. One example

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    The Theory of Social Construction What is Social Construction?  Social Construction Theory is concerned with the ways we think about and use categories to structure our experience and analysis of the world. (Jackson‚ Penrose) Nurture versus Nature  The Nurture approach would say that rather than genetics or inborn traits‚ social ideas and categories (including stereotypes) are socially constructed or and then accepted as reality‚ despite the facts. – For instance‚ the earth was once considered

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    Everyone ’s life is affected by social construction. This is the belief that social standard is determined by society‚ and it is formed by the individuals that belong to the society. Just Like when an individual thinks of a doctor‚ lawyer‚ priest‚ engineer‚ or manager‚ they usually picture males. Similarly‚ the nurses‚ teachers‚ and housewives might be purely female professions in our society. This is social constructionist thought on the role of equity and equality should play in today ’s society

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    income and social status between individuals and groups. This distribution is not random‚ it is patterned and structured. Three important axes of global inequality are gender‚ race and ethnicity‚ and class. These inequalities are on a global scale and are found in virtually all societies. It wasn’t until relatively recently‚ however‚ that a caste system developed to include race and ethnicity among class and gender. Since imperialism and the conquest of the America’s‚ a number of social changes have

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    Social Policy is the way that governments attempt to ensure that all citizens can lead a fulfilling and responsible life.” (Mullard‚ 1995) So what is Social Policy? – When asked this question I find it quite difficult to explain in terms that are easy enough for everyone to understand‚ therefore I have done research in order to find a simple explanation. I particularly like Hartley Dean’s definition‚ ‘Social Policy is the study of human wellbeing’ he also states that ‘Social Policy‚ involves

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    relation to men has been an important social issue that has lasted for hundreds of years‚ still affecting women in our contemporary society today. Classifications that are of “particular importance for social image construction are age‚ social class‚ ethnicity‚ sex and sexual preference”‚ and “our perceptions of women and men are shaped by our symbolic constructs of femininity and masculinity” (Hunter College Women‘s Studies Collective‚ 1995). Psychologically‚ gender roles describe appropriate behaviour

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    : Social imagination and the Social perspectives: The concept “sociological imagination’ was introduced by C.Wright Mills in 1959 The sociological imagination is a concept of being able to think ourselves away from the familiar routines of our daily lives in order to look at them in a different & a more wider perspective. Mills defined sociological imagination as “the vivid awareness of the relationship between experience and the wider society.” To have a sociological imagination‚ a person

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    I. SOCIAL IMAGINATION CONCEPTUALIZATION According to C. W. Mills‚ “social imagination is an awareness of the relationship between a person’s behavior and experience and the wider culture that shaped the person’s choices and perceptions. It’s a way of seeing our own and other people’s behavior in relationship to history and social structure (1959)” (OpenStax College‚ 2015‚ p.6). Sociological imagination is the ability to see individual behavior within the larger society and the impact of society over

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