Social Constructionist Perspective

Where we are, and what we believe affect the way we view society. Social lenses are the preconceptions we make about the world around us. It is what makes people come across the same situation have different perspectives and understandings it. They are caused by gender, sex, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, and all in all experiences. As life goes on, a perspective over a situation can change because of the experiences faced in life. Social lenses have affected my perspective on the education system, the “Black Lives Matter” movement, and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community.

In conclusion, it is important to adopt both a constructivist stance and a sociological imagination to better understand the abortion laws as a social problem from the Pro-Life perspective. Adopting the constructivist stance allows you to avoid getting side tracked from the specifics of the issues within the abortion laws itself but rather, the process of their development and why they have been deemed a social problem by the Pro-Life movement. Understanding the process of the abortion laws transforming into a social problem equips individuals with the proper tools to ask critical thinking questions about not how the abortion law came about but why and why it evokes a particularly negative response from the Pro-Life movement. Using sociological

At the age of eight, I started to become the parent of my household. I was responsible for cooking, packing lunches, taking care of my family, and cleaning the house. Growing up with these responsibilities influenced how I interacted with my peers and how I managed my relationships with others. The environmentally influence being a parent in my house has shaped me into the person I am today and has taught me many life lessons. I became the parental influence of the household because my mother got severely sick and could not handle the roles as a mother or wife.

When we are born our mind is a blank chalkboard. As we grow and interact with the world around us, that chalkboard gets filled with pictures, shapes, and words that construct our ideals in life. It is important that not only we, but our children be surrounded by open minded positivity. In the article that I will analyze we can clearly see where the picture for a better tomorrow goes rye.

When I reflect on chapter 5, what I call the social constructionist chapter, there are numerous concepts that I remember. Michael Kimmel says in the book that gender identity is socially constructed, our identities are a fluid assemblage of the meanings and behaviors that we construct from the values, images, and prescriptions we find in the world around us. In my opinion, Kimmel means that people behave in a way that they chose to, influenced by what they see in their surroundings, or the communities they live in. Additionally they behave the way they do because of fear of disapproval. These social constructs made by people. The idea of doing gender is caused by society. In the lecture, Kimmel’s definition meant identities are changeable

Social construction is something many people may not be aware of. Our society is living in segregation dependent on your gender, race and class. Race, class and gender do not really mean anything. Social construction is how different groups of people in our society and how it privileges certain groups over others. For instance, you are a female or a male because society says you are, not because you select to be. This is that same with what race you are categorized as and what socioeconomic class you belong in. This is all just a social procedure that makes us all different between what society perceives as normal, what is normal, and what is not seen as ordinary. There are three types of social classes: upper, middle, and lower class. Everyone

Concept below Social Construction Social construction originates from a human attempt to come to terms with the nature of the world realities. Social construction is a general term that represents a sociology perspective that concentrates on the development of different sociology phenomenon as described in the social context. Social construction theory questions the different assumptions held by the quality of items, concepts and issues that human beings try to resolve each day. The theory instead brings attention to the human dependence on our social rationale.

A paradigm is a set of beliefs or assumptions that create the reality for a group. The values, moras, and habits, all of which are socially constructed, create the reality for the group. The theory of social construction is a theory that knowledge is constructed by humans for human use. We communicate using rhetoric, allowing others to see into those socially constructed ideas or paradigms. Rhetoric is the ability to ascertain and analyze, in any given context, the available means of persuasion. Persuasion is necessary to convince the audience of one’s paradigms. The play, Angels In America, by Tony Kushner, focuses on two relationships that interconnect throughout the entire play. Kushner informs the reader of a typical dismal life of someone with AIDS during the Reagan and Bush eras. During this desperate time, self-interest overtakes everything else, allowing the power dynamics to become even more clear and powerful. This hierarchy is socially constructed, but sets the reality for the unfortunate, marginalized lives of most of those contracted with AIDS. Through the writing technique, ASAAP, I will establish the act, scene, agent, agency, and purpose for each example. This fully explains each act literally and figuratively, so one is able to fully comprehend the meaning behind each act.

For this assignment I want to volunteer somewhere I’m comfortable and at the same time show how different city will do different thing. During spring break, my old high school host a baseball tournament where high schools from all over Colorado come and play. As an alumni and volunteer, I had the opportunity to be apart of the field crews and collecting trash at the end of each day. When I was a player, all I have to do at the end of the game was taking care of the field. Now as a volunteer I have to help the field crews clean up the fields and the stand where crowd sit watching the game. At the end of the day, I have to take out the trash and help the concession stand. Go back to my old high school as a volunteer help me understand different social construction of each community.

Social constructionism highlights that human uses a critical stance toward our taken-for-granted forms of interpreting, perceiving and comprehending the world, and that human must suspect our assumptions about what the world seems to be. The categorise and classification are not absolutely associated with real divisions. Social constructionism doubts whether the categories female and male are merely representing naturally emerging different types of human (Ernest, 1998). Social constructionism appeals to question the classification and categories because human made them basing on their culture value, experience and environment.

The macro system envelopes the social and economic status of people. Family, co-workers and individuals are all aspects of my macro system, but in a larger scale. My socioeconomic status was not handed down to me by my parents, instead, I had to decide where I wanted to stand. The position that I had taken is comfortable to me and my family, we might not be rich in the meaning of wealth, but we are comfortable in our lives. The social aspect of my life is quite small. I do not enjoy large crowds, it might have something to do with my work, since I work with a population that always puts me on guard. However, with the small circle of family, friends and co-workers, I am well balanced and my social position is secure.

I learned that Constructionists do not believe that knowledge and different concepts are discovered but rather they are made. But even though they don’t believe, they still acknowledge it to be part of reality. Social constructionism is based on a social reality rather than individuals. Constructionism does not answer or they don’t care about ontological questions. I also that social constructionists are open to change if it means that they to need to justify or defend anything that they

To anthropology race has nothing to do with biological reality but that it is a made up social idea of differences. Anthropologist believe that race is just a social construct. The United States views race as a category that they can use to organize citizens into. Ethnicity is often confused with race in the US. People tend to see race as part of their culture. An example of this is when people look at the pigmentation of a person’s skin they tend to group everyone that looks the same together and because they look alike they must act and have the same belief’s.

Social construct is any interest constructed by members in a particular culture or society. This exists because people agree to behave and follow certain predictable rules. One example of a social construct is social status i.e. “a position one holds in society or a group”. Racial categories haven’t always been with us, in ancient times, religion, language, status, and class distinctions were more important than physical appearance. Historically racial categories were not unbiased or objective. Groups were segregated so they could be excluded or

We see the world through a lens. Each culture and society has its own way of perceiving reality and existence. It then expresses its perception of reality according to culturally fabricated terminology its language. The language, in turn, reinforces its perspective of reality. The whole hub of social knowledge customs, institutions, routines, habits, perceptions is socially constructed derived through our socialization and becomes our subjective reality. These are intensified and disseminated, if not, often times created, by powers of society, such as the media, who create and use words to forge certain images in people's minds and to create the realties that they wish to render. The following essay uses a recent advertisement from Singapore Airlines as example of this thesis.