C. Wright Mills's Social Construction Theory

According to C. Wright Mills, what materializes a human beings life is interrelated with society. One cannot understand the life of a human being or the history of society without understanding both. He claims that people do not see the connection that exists between the patterns in their lives and the course of history. What is right to Mills is that people need a quality of mind to use information to evolve reason to create connections between what 's going on in the world and what is going on in their lives. Mills calls that social imagination. Mills states: "The Social imagination enables us to grasp the connection between history and biography” (1959, p. 3). The key to the social imagination is to see the relation between the ordinary lives of people and wider social forces.

17). Ore suggests with the social construction theory that what we see as "real" is due to human interaction (2011, p. 5). We learn to categorize as we are socialized in our cultures. Social construction relies on stereotypes. Ores ' theory relies on elements of critical thinking to ask questions about what is assumed to be real, valued, and significant in our culture. The awareness of our place and time in our culture or our standpoint is one of the four elements of critical thinking. This primary element includes enculturation which Ore defines as the immersion in our own culture to the where we assume that our way of life is "natural" or "normal" (2011, p. 2). Gender stereotypes, growing up in a family where the man "brings the bread," and working while attending college, are unique aspects of my background. These aspects are understood with assumptions. Proving that the society and culture in which we grow up in influences what we do and how we