Social Construction

To say of something is “socially constructed” is to emphasize the contingent aspects of our social selves. It is to say: This “thing” could have not existed had we not built it. Had we had a different kind of society, needs, values, or even interests, we might not have built a different kind of “thing”, or even built it differently. Something that naturally exists is independently on us and how we had the power to shape it. There are many things, and facts that are socially constructed in the sense of specified core idea; money, citizenship, and newspapers. None of these would have existed if it was not for society and each could have been constructed differently if we chose to. Social construction of reality is a theory of knowledge that

Since the 1950s, human behavior and the mental process of an individual or group, has developed into a constructive theory of personality. Therefore, it represents one of the first attempts to appreciate nature of experience and the meaning people give to their experience. Our behavior is determined by the concept of nature and nurture. Nature determine who we are by our genetics and how we are born, whereas nurture determines who we are by our environment and how we shaped by our surroundings. The analysis of everyday life, or rather the subjective experience of everyday life, refrains from any causal genetic hypothesis and the status of analyzing. With analyzing comes consciousness, which is always intentional. It always intends or is directed towards objects and people. The object of consciousness is experienced as belonging to an external physical world in reality. For example, if you are viewing a panorama of New York City you become conscious of the anxiety that went on years ago. If you specifically geared your attention towards the Empire State Building, this would differ your awareness of anxiety. A detailed analysis would uncover various layers of experience and the different structures of meaning involved in, say, being bitten by a dog would change as well. Remembering you were bit by a dog could possibly give you the phobia about having or seeing dogs. The function on the basis of an action

Ethnocentrism is judging another culture solely by values and standards of one’s culture. This results in viewing and interpreting someone. Societal problems such as intimacy, family, education is a fundamental role of the situation when detecting a social world. In class, there was an article about a Danish woman who left her baby outside a shop in New York City. Someone called the Police on her because they saw an unattended baby. As Americans, we are shocked by someone leaving her baby unattended in a busy city. We so no stop to think that the rule of never leaving your baby is socially constructed. We also do not stop to think that other cultures might do it differently and that are multiple ways of constructing reality. We only know the reality that we have grown up in. In Denmark, it is socially acceptable to leave your baby unattended outside a shop or restaurant. One analogy of cultural differences is a fish bowl. Fish only know what is is their fish bowl. If a fish ever only ever lived in water that was tainted green, and you moved it into a clear water bowl, it would be shocked by the clear water. It would not know that the water was tainted green but it would seem that the new water was tainted clear. It is easy to assume the other colors of water is strange when we only know the waters that we grew up in. The water might have different qualities, but the water is the same livable water. We are all