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 May 5 2008, 10:02 PM
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A social construction or social construct is any phenomenon "invented" or "constructed" by participants in a particular culture or society, existing because people agree to behave as if it exists or follow certain conventional rules. One example of a social construct is social status.
Another is pants size. You can go to Vietnam and what's consider "Large" there would be consider "Small" here. Besides there's some countries that large is a size 4 in girls! While here in the U.S a Large in girls pants would be like 13-14. So yeah, there's no right answer about what is large and small in pants size. It's all socially constructed. |
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Tungster Post something that is socially constructed May 5 2008, 10:02 PM
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