Race is a social co... ... a social mechanism, phenomenon, or category created and developed by society; a perception of an individual, group, or idea that is 'constructed' through cultural or social practice ... Search another word or see social construct on Thesaurus | Reference...
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Our situation sparks legal, political, and social unknowns. ... plastic surgery and Mommy Makeovers: that if we and society truly recognized who we “are” as our souls/spirits (not in a religious way, necessarily) WITHIN a biological construct, I wouldn’t have any problem with medically messing around with those...
bluemilk.wordpress.com/2008/03/26/when-mother-is-just-a... bluemilk.wordpress.com/2008/03/26/when-mother-is-just-a-biological-social-construct/
But the second dumbest idea has to be that race is just a social construct.  As I have written before, social constructivism is one of the Left’s favorite current ideas.
www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=983
Anyone wish to try asserting ownership of your own home in a place without a social construct of property laws or a justice system? You won’t have anything other than your brawn to back it up.
finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/faq-if-gend... finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/faq-if-gender-is-a-social-construct-arent-feminists-saying-that-gender-doesnt-really-exist-at-all/
> I'm trying to give my students some concrete "beginnings" on "RACE" as a construct. ... Both social and governmental institutions were devices wrought by the planters. The system of Negro slavery may have been thrust upon them by England, but the problems arising from it were first of all the planters' problems;
www.msu.edu/~hicksmi3/race3.html
and the last word goes to this bit of social commentary, ... Try living in the middle of a highly concentrated population of mexicans and tell me that stereotyping is bad… it’s only bad when you LIVE UP TO THE STEREOTYPE, which I have learned that most Mexicans (and other people Southern American/Latino heritage)
www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2008/03/25/its-not-a-rac... www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2008/03/25/its-not-a-race-its-a-social-construct/
Race, a social construct, was created by society. There is no gene in the human body that defines what "race" you are, therefore, it is only an idea that individuals came up with. Yet, people in today's society still categorize individuals by their race and stereotype individuals by what race they most resemble.
www.oppapers.com/essays/Race-Social-Construct/83586 www.oppapers.com/essays/Race-Social-Construct/83586
This course explores how we get to be women and men, the different ways we experience gender, and gender as a principal factor in social organization and stratification. It examines and critiques the sociological forces that maintain, enforce, and produce social stratification and difference based on gender.
www.sociologyindex.com/gender_and_woman_syllabus.htm www.sociologyindex.com/gender_and_woman_syllabus.htm
Julie Bindel: Attempts to identify a genetic basis for homosexuality refuse to accept that sexual desire is a social construct. ... Attempts to identify a genetic basis for homosexuality refuse to accept that sexual desire is a social construct ... The inaugural Miss Fat Gay contest aims to turn the stereotype of beauty on its head...
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/dec/14/gayrights.gender
This means that genders (women and men) and gendered traits (like being nurturing or ambitious) are the “intended or unintended product[s] of a social practice” (Haslanger 1995, 97). But which social practices construct gender, what social construction is and what being of a certain gender amounts to are major...
plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-gender/