Social construction refers to the idea that the way we understand and perceive things in society is not natural or fixed, but rather shaped by our shared beliefs and ideas. It means that aspects of our world, like gender, race, or even the concept of money, are not inherent, but rather created and developed through social interactions and agreements.
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The
traditional social construction of disability has been identified by many authors and academics as the greatest source of disability discrimination in society.
This course allowed me to investigate legal and
social constructions of race that undoubtedly affect historically underserved communities that hold our most powerful students.
Mohamoud said that her work is influenced by African American artist David Hammons, whose work focuses on black civil rights, social bondage and resistance; and artist Richard Serra whose minimalist sculptors invite the viewer to consider their role
in social constructions of power and influence.
Inspired by power structures and relationships of dependency, Boehm's works will address current issues of gender and sexuality to reflect
on social constructions embedded in the current political context.
He sees the city landscape as a metaphor
for social construction and focusses on traces of urban development and forms of signage orchestrating mobility.
The work of artist Leigh Ledare maps psychosocial relations inscribed within the various orders of photography, language, and public and
private social constructions.
The exhibition will feature a range of photographs dealing
with social constructions of masculinity, the male body, and gender expression.
In this way, identity was constantly manufactured and learned through highly
refined social constructions of gender, race, sexuality, and citizenship, achieving their effect through the myriad expressions of the mass media.
Continuing the concepts embedded in her recent solo exhibition, Smell the Roses at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles, Gaignard's new body of work employs exaggeration and camp to
explore social constructions that relate to her identity as a biracial woman.
Film plays a central role in their mutual explorations of identity and movement: Through the work of three emerging international artists, Quarantina, currently exhibiting at John Hansard Gallery, questions the place of the individual
within social constructions.
What O'Flaherty reports about myth, however, is that using it consciously provides a means of directing the narrative to
ordinary social constructions of reality.
Aside from research design biases, Fine also notes
how social constructions of gender shape the situations people encounter, and their subjective meaning.
It is understood that this is a
purely social construction that has established itself in very specific times and places, but in practice the arbitrary nature of these institutionalized arrangements escapes conscious notice.
A school's culture must have a clear vision of how it includes and advocates for student voice; provide opportunities for students to cocreate their learning experiences; develop students»
social construction by reaching out to all kinds of resources and expertise; and make certain that self - discovery becomes a driver of students» metacognition.
Social Construction draws inspiration from the extensive research of Israel Prize - winning architect Ada Karmi - Melamede and architect Dan Price, whose book of the same title explores not only the tectonic and functional aspects of this new architecture, but also the relationships among values, place, and form that defined the qualities of its new language.
The Yale Architecture Gallery in New Haven
presents Social Construction: Modern Architecture in British Mandate Palestine, which traces the influence of international modernism on the architectural vernacular that developed in Palestine during the British Mandate period (1917 — 1948).
Like art, nature, the imagination, or indeed any concept, the sublime has another way of dying: it can take on
new social constructions, new frames, and new meanings.
In Sis Boom Bah, Betsy Odom investigates the possibility of organized sports as a way to
defy social constructions of gender, identity and sexuality.
The caveat was that they all were names that become «D.K.» I wrote them with a fat tipped marker (graffiti reference) and even - tually people picked up on the pattern and felt entitled to contribute to it so there's a degree of
social construction going on too.
It brings together eight artists and collectives from different geographic locations, socio - political perspectives and moments in time who share an impulse to
question social constructions of power.
Although well versed in many modalities of therapy, her clinical focus is systemic therapies, in particular post-modern and
social construction approaches including narrative therapy.
They are neither to be dismissed as
mere social constructions, and hence spurious, nor celebrated as our real unchanging essences in a heartless and unchanging world.
About Leigh Ledare: The work of artist Leigh Ledare maps psychosocial relations inscribed within the various orders of photography, language, and public and
private social constructions.
Human sexuality has long been a subject of interest for Shear, and his gift is rich in photographs dealing
with social constructions of masculinity, the male body, and gender expression.
It's a reading that has all of the epistemological and political faults of the «
social construction of science», an approach that today is deployed most effectively by climate science deniers.
And his next two books,
The Social Construction of Reality (1966, with Thomas Luckmann) and The Sacred Canopy (1967), would soon cement his intellectual reputation.
Applying the moral of the fable to the social and political sphere, one could say that without the personal discipline necessary to improve the quality of our «human material,»
all social constructions will fail.
In order to make such value judgments one must assume, as the hard - core atheists are honest enough to acknowledge, that there exists somewhere, in some mode of being, arealm of rightness that does not owe its existence completely to human invention, Darwinian selection or
social construction.
Theology was
a social construction of reality purposely linked with morality in order to gain wide - ranging acceptance and to unify the masses thousands of years ago.
Then I read Marx, Freud, Weber and Durkheim and decided that Christianity is
a social construction that sometimes operates as a crutch, is sometimes politically repressive, and in its finer moments is a source of moral challenge and social cohesion.
The term which Girard coins to indicate
the social construction of the mimetic self is «interdividual psychology.»