Sentences with phrase «self as a social construct»

By relying largely on appropriated imagery and treating the self as a social construct, these artists challenge «the official rhetoric of both our old metaphysical tradition and our new con - sumerist society.»

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Unlike James Joyce, who was alienated and angry and therefore turned his critical intelligence into a weapon, or later novelists for whom social criticism became a rhetorical convention, James and Conrad were modern enough to see our socially constructed self - images, and yet not so modern as to cherish or reject them» or take them for granted.

This rejection of nature is manifest in the now orthodox distinction between sex, which is «merely biological,» and gender, defined as a construct either of oppressive social norms or of the free, self - defining subject — one often finds protagonists of this revolution oscillating back and forth between those polar extremes.

The state's propensity to assign individuals identities through voter registration lists and social security numbers or more generally to reinforce conceptions of individual rights serves as an example; the roles of educational systems (through individualized test scores) and professional careers (organized around cumulative skills attached to the individual's biography) provide further examples.7 This work is important because it shows the dependence of self - constructs on markers in the culture at large: the self is understood not only in terms of internal development but also as a product of external reinforcement.

I define artistic voice as how students blend ideas with media to construct representations, political voice is how they articulate ideas about social issues that emerge from their experiences, and by social issues, I mean self - selected topics that impact a larger community and are important to students (e.g., immigration, cyberbullying).

Spanning a broad gamut of themes and applied constructs, the show includes such as early works as shots taken in Nadar's 19th century Parisian studio, of the mime artist Charles Deburau posing as Pierrot the clown (an example of a performance played out purely for the camera); through the theatrical and conceptual work of Carolee Schneemann and Paul McCarthy; nuanced developments of self - identity in the work of Marcel Duchamp, Cindy Sherman and Andy Warhol; and onto the hyper - contemporary world of selfies and social - media disseminated flotsam.

«Historically women have used self - portraiture as a means to address their own identity in relationship to contemporary society and social constructs.

For the documentary, which considers personal identity, the individual in society, and how we construct our social selves, Wearing placed an advertisement in newspapers throughout Newcastle and London, asking readers if they would like to act in a film either as themselves or cast as a fictional character.

Flourishing has been postulated as a distinct measure of well - being that is separate to life satisfaction, which taps into more evaluative judgements of subjective - well - being [70], [71]; the flourishing construct taps into perceptions of self - efficacy, optimism, success at social relationships, purpose in life, and self esteem.