” and as we will see, social constructions like this have very real implications for college admissions, scholarships, one’s identity, as well as on the way that others see us. We might eventuallyperformthe role of a high-achieving student once that...
Reality is always a mutually agreed-upon social construct, a more or less common consensus about what is out there and what it all means to most people. Our shared ideas of truth, beauty, morality, politics, and the 1 we interpret the world and make decisions on how we act in it are...
At one level the claim is almost trivial, since our knowledge about ourselves, and about the social as well as the natural world, is mediated byCULTURE, and so is necessarily 'social’ in origin. A specific emphasis on the social construction of reality is often made, however, to offset ...
People often act based on social norms, expectations, or habits rather than by attempting to ascertain the nature of reality itself. In that context, it is true to say that people’s perceptions of reality are socially constructed, as explained by the Thomas theorem...This news item is from...
In IT information should not be considered as mere 'data', like empirical findings in the direct perception of the physical environment; but rather as a social construct. It is created and tailored on C Castelfranchi - 《International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems》 被引量: 57发表:...
Taking economic class as an example, research is reviewed that suggests how race and social structure jointly influence people's stereotypes within differing historical and cultural contexts. The black middle class is used as a case where analysis requires attention to both race and structure....
Social construction' is a central metaphor in contemporary social science, yet it is used and understood in widely divergent and indeed conflicting ways by different thinkers. Most commonly, it is seen as radically opposed to realist social theory. Dave Elder-Vass argues that social scientists shoul...
“any action that is repeated frequently becomes cast into a pattern, which can then be … performed again in the future in the same manner and with the same economical effort” (Berger and Luckmann 1966). Not only do we construct our own society but we also accept it as it is becaus...
The empirical patterns from within a sample of urban adults are interpreted as supporting the importance of the mass media (particularly television) and of interpersonal discussion in explaining our version of the normative equality construct.doi:10.1080/10646179009359711...
As we go about our business of living our daily lives, we ground information to our common ground, and construct a social reality that is mutually meaningful and yet only local. If locally grounded information is further generalized to a large collective and disseminated through social networks, ...