Social Constructionism
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- Social constructionism observes how the interactions of individuals with their society and the world around them gives meaning to otherwise worthless things and creates the reality of the society.
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Social Constructionism is a Social Construct
your mom's a social construct
Yes. But that doesn't mean it's not a functional method for describing the world around us.
We may one day discover a better method to describe the world around us that may surpass Social Constructionism. That doesn't mean that Social Constructionism should be thrown away entirely right now, or that it doesn't contain any useful lens to understand our lives.
@@redeemingreview7818 "better" is a social construction.
Sounds like a Drunken Conspiracy
Beating me to it by 4 years is a social construct, therefore you didn't.
Thank you so much for this information, I read a book on sociology for class and I have tried to really understand the difference of social constructionism, functionalism, and SI, and you [your videos] made it so easy to understand and to learn, not just memorize, thank you, again.
I've been looking around looking for a simple meaning because everywhere else in the internet make it sound more complicated then it is so thank you because now I can actually do my essay lol
Social deconstructionism is like applying Ockham's razor to Ockham's razor. Most simplest theory: We invented everything, the end.
I think that the problem with applying ockham's razor to Ockham's Razor is that it would destroy itself when applied
something useful to note: social constructionism is quite different in eastern and western philosophies. in eastern philosophies, social construction usuallyis relationship based -- e.g. have you eaten (context) vs in western culture its categorical e.g. have you eaten lunch / tea --> which groups events by time period in this case.
Is the knowledge of social construction a social construct?
Yes
Yes. Everything is a social construct.
@@mickpee1468 Really , everything.
Gender isn't
Biology Isn't
The laws of nature aren't
To a man with a hammer everything is a nail.
@@kevinsheerin9427 Gender *is* a social contruct. Epistemology (which is knowledge, for example... science) is also a social construct. Forces of nature might not be constructs, but the laws that describe those are (you guessed it) social constructs.
@@Katie-us7nh the concept of understanding nature is a social construct
You're really good at explaining, even for a newbie to sociology like myself. I hope you come back to CZcams and do more videos soon!
I agree the person is good at explaining Conflict Theory.
Thanks for the video. It was extremely well put together. I suppose this takes the mantra "the meaning of a word is its use," and really runs with it. I know your goal is to explain not defend, but I want to give three reservations anyway: 1. How can we even use societies/cultures/linguistic groups as explanations if they are not logically prior to the explanation? 2. Can't we give some pretty good counterexamples. The word "horses" seems to pick something out in the world in a way that the word "unicorns" does not. The worry here is that linguistic expressions seem to pick out features of the world, and some linguistic expressions do this better than others. 3. What if a society decides social constructivism is false? Cheers :D
i stumbled upon those ideas while tripping and ended up on this video later day. its interesting how everything is not what we usualy believe. some people never realize that these social constructs are more or less just a illusion.
Strong social constructionism would seem to be able to fall back on the associated ideas, that: everything that we know, experience and think, is meaning-mediated, and meaning is mediated by what is social; while anything beyond that, is indeterminately irrelevant to what it is to be human.
Social construction theory then is itself a social construction. We then have the possibilities of, rejecting the theory, or alternatively grounding our humanness in adherence to and investment in the theory. Our choice here may depend on our personal aetiology and development: the theory, which has come about across social dynamics and has social implications; either resonating with or not-resonating with our personal sense of things.
why do I have to take a humanities class when I am majoring in computer science
I don't know but I find this so difficult =(( I have a test next week and I don't know how to explain this with my own words. =/
Probably because your being taught a steaming pile of dog shit in exchange for $$$
@@Mikedc100 lol
I agree. It seems pretty janky haha
@@Mikedc100 Lemma add a few $$$
The test you’re took was a social construct. Humans giving a sheet of paper and a pen a value. Getting a diploma is a construct. It’s just a paper, but it represents an idea that humans created.
Basically this explains the westernized matrix we all need to free ourselves from. 🤔
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As a writer and tutor, this is very informative and resourceful
Great video. I'm curious to know how you'd differentiate social constructivism and symbolic interactionism
Social constructionism is the idea that society as a whole has given meaning to everything while symbolic interactionism is a smaller scale perspective that looks at the meaning an individual gives to everything and how that affects their behavior and interactions. For example, everyone agrees on the value of a one dollar bill (social constructionism), but people might give different value or significance to a small sculpture--it could be a paper weight to one person and a priceless historical artifact to someone else--and people will behave based on their own individual meaning that they have assigned to that sculpture (symbolic interactionism).
who is the theorist of social construction?
do you know who is the theorist of social construction?pls reply
Lev Vygotsky
Berger and Luckmann
Not sure about the "otherwise worthless things" idea. I think that our human processes work in a way where if we come to where we perceive and experience a "thing", it is because it has taken on meaning and purpose for us. Culture might then carry "things", the original meaning and purpose of which is somewhat lost in the dim and distant past; somewhat lost, but not completely lost. We also currently live in a world which is much more actively "mediated" by media, than was the case in the past; such that the relevance of social construction theory may attach to that aspect of our current era.
Great way to argue against empirical evidence. Really useful and not in any way an underpinning of the destruction of our scientific community.
Sam Mountjoy Not really. Empirical evidence has nothing to do with our perception of reality.
Barbora Litvanová Would you like to cite your sources that claim variances in human eye quality are significant enough that humans...who use LANGUAGE to arrive at consensus of what we EXPERIENCE as real based on the cognitive input following NATURAL NEURAL PATHWAYS that cause all but a minority of people to have the same experience. Non written language is NOT a social construct. It is a biological function. I’m not against social constructionism, but it needs some serious new quality checks put in place to make sure the almost always narrow scope and ridiculously low reproducibility of works is not only misapplied socially and causing actual damage to the people the various fields are supposed to help.
You are a conservative traditionalist. lol
so, society is a social construction. look mom I found a circular logic!
what👏is👏the👏political👏effect👏
Social constructionism is unfalsifiable: if reality is a construction, how do we know that social constructionism is a reliable description for reality? We either assume that (namely: "reality is socially constructed, because is socially constructed"), or we simply say that truth and falsity do not exist because they are socially constructed. But if so, what does social constructionism describe? In the end, social constructionism is neither true nor false is a faith or an ideology, certainly it is not science.
AndreA5891bc But in the end, our perception of science is also the result of social construction.
Why don't you write a thesis about that and confront the people who believe it's true?
triangulation of data is required
Love all your videos- great to watch, lovely illstrations, good examples, well explained, really useful tools for my tutorials
wow- i don’t think ive ever seen a comment written this long ago before. 8 years lol.
Natural occurrences are not dependent on anything social, but ppl's conception thereof does. Just think about the vast possibility of framing things.
she explained it so well.
My answer ti the biological criticism of SC is that yes, we (Social Contructionists) have to accept that we are skin, meat and bones. But our sense of identity, and our sense of individualism is just a total illusion made possible by the medium of being alive. Everything else we think is true about us is false to somebody else.
You go girl!
i feel like this topic is a riddle. im so confused.
Please provide more sociology concepts like ethnomethodology phenomenology etc
Modernity
And other concepts
It will be very helpfull for me
Informative, thanks ms.brown
Gender and race both of them are social Construction?
@@koreansavior1059 really? race and gender are not social Constructed?
Interesting video
well made video ^^
Actually, the desire to evade answering the question of whether something is real or not, is to avoid learning and the attainment of wisdom.
Jevioso Orishas Only a fool will answer if something is real or not.
is social constructionism synonymous with social constructivism?
Constructivism deals more with the individual
thank you
Did you just say my identity is a social construct??
Are my memories even real?
if I bash you in the head with the right amount of force you might lose your identity, or maybe even better you will think you are Napoleon or something. you need to construct identity to keep your life in a comprehendible narrative, so it is constructed for the sake of simplicity, other than that your identity is just as real as any other construct. you are "you" not also because you think you are "you", a big part of your identity is how you think others think of "you" (how they remind you who your name is and your position and role in society, family, clique, etc).
in short yes your identity is a social construct and it is possible to relinquish this identity altogether (unless you wanna be buddha there is no point in doing this).
This theory makes one feel like everything is nothing and there's actually no everything. Nothing exists. After understanding it it's like you are in the midst of dreams, a dream after another. It makes one feel like nothing makes sense, like your own self doesn't make exist. It's like my head is spinning and i don't even know myself at all. Is what i see around me reality? Is all the hard work i put on everyday have value? Lol, is today even Friday, or do we really have days and dates, or they are also social constructed? Maybe we are not even alive and those who are dead are actually living, who knows? This theory makes me wanna quit everything because it does not make sense or have value at all. It feels like the first time i read the scripture on the bible on Ecclesiaste 1:2, that nothing makes sense and everything is useless. God help me unread all of these because wow, i can't feel myself right now, my head is spinning and I feel like my reality is a prank. Is God even real or we just constructed that so as to have discipline in everything we do. Is language a social construct too? My God i am so confused😇😓
re the very beginning of your video, surely social constructionism takes the position that Everything is a social construct, not just certain things like money, nations etc - things that are more abstract. e.g. real social constructionists would argue (and do!) that even death and furniture are socially constructed, that there is no bottom line, out-there, directly apprehended, pre discursive/linguistic reality.
A wall is a social construct that exists only because we agree to define it as a solid real object. yet since we only defined that object and has no objective reality outside of out socially constructed reality. therefore, the reader of this postmodern critical theory gobbledygook will just walk straight through that "not" real wall, right? if you see her going out through the door, the socially constructed opening, then can we assume that the language game only works within the game, and not in reality, itself?
I think you are just explaining where something should take place. Like the door was opened through that direction or pathway. Also I dont think you can assume that choosing to develop with a choice in mind will help make sure that it is a positive or negative effect.
I have had an instance where this friend of mine needed my iPad to communicate with her friend. I had my own job, so I was busy. She went over and talked about her issues and all. Sending a message with a bubble to feel better was important. Something that I rarely used. You wouldn't expect it to be useful. It was punctual how I had that piece of technology to be used. What you're asking can't be given an answer because you or I do not have a way to predict what jesterfying thing will come to which person.
So basically, brute facts is akin to materialism while the rest are idealism
Great video. Greetings from Peru.
What is the social construction of childhood?
Pitty you stopped making new videos
Hi.. i love the presentation..what software did you use in editing this production?
I used Adobe Premiere Pro for the editing.
Thanks, Sydney.
So is anything we find valuable a social construct?
Gostaria deste vídeo em português.
What is meant by the “social construction of gender”?
girls have to wear pink boy have to wear blue
why dont we assign purple and yellow?
bc social construction we are taught to believe that girls wear pink and play with barbies and boys wear blue and play with toy cars
Thank you for sharing your insight.
is this related to constructionist model?
I'm writing my essay on How much of the international system is ‘socially constructed’? To what extent does the theory of social constructivism offer the best explanation for the reasons why? can you give me any pointers regarding this topic regards
I'm afraid I don't know enough about the international system to give you a good answer on that. Perhaps consider what aspects of the system have different meanings based on an individual's social background. Interactions between different societies can often result in misunderstandings when they have a different significance assigned to something.
Sorry I can't be of more help.
hi! Is social construction of reality the same of social constructionism? Pls reply. it' really important. thanks :)
the theorist of social constructivism are Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann?
This is so hard.
hy it's is same with social constructionist or is different phenomenon then social constructionism?
+Joniortourist its same
Wow, glad I have that paper and metal so I can feed my family that is t really there because their a social construct..
Is age a social construction?
Great video. How did you create the graphic? Is there an app?
The best opportunity to feel different realities is when you go abroad. It's so funny to visit a foreign country and perceive the different reality.
If I didn't have to memorize this stuff for the MCAT, I'd laugh and not spend two minutes on this B.S.
tluedeke reactor7 may I ask how is it BS
Paul Judkins Ironically, that was all social constructs.
Tony D'vec a wanna be doctor who is not studying about human society hmm interesting.
Social construct is BS? Let's talk about race, gender, sexual orientation. These are HUGELY influenced by social constructionism! Depending on your race, you may or may not be more inclined to discrimination. At the end of the day, race was SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED by society. Race is not real, there is no race. We are all one, we are all connected. Some are lighter, some are darker, but we are all the same. There is no gender and there is no sexual orientation. We try to create labels to "understand" everyone, when this is simply not possible because the human psyche is very complex! You can imagine how this can affect people and their lives! Look at the world we are living in today--people that are socially constructed as gay are often times killed because of it, when none of it is REAL! You're going to be dealing with patients who are LGBT, a particular race, etc. and you need to understand that their access to healthcare is directly affected because of who they are labeled as in society!
@Paul Judkins you are fucken ignorant LMFAO
my brain just died a bit
You do the math
“Power resides where men believe it resides”
The Dickless dude from Game of Thrones.
But seriously, that’s what this vid basically says. In our own universe we say that modern society is so fake that the truth actually bothers people.
I notive it alot when I tell people in my surroundings the truth. Point is that modern society isn’t that modern at all. We’re still the same primates from a million years ago . Our toys are just a bit more shiny now. And that’s the truth. If you realize that, escaping social constructs isn’t that difficult.
Your version of "truth" is as much of a construction as their's.
What you say you're experiencing is not some inherent "truth" coming face-to-face with some inherent "falsehoods", but the confrontation that takes place between speakers that speak on behalf of different constructions that conflict with one another (like what I'm choosing to engage in right now). Social constructs can not be escaped, but rather traversed, explored, and expanded upon, because all knowledge is socially constructed, as well as the symbols used to communicate such knowledge (such as the words I'm using to communicate to you).
Realism vs social constructivism. Sc is false b/c it's not true object depends on subject, not true reality depends on perception since the status of that so called dependency is itself not reality but ideology, a postulate taken for granted on faith as the starting point of the argument.
Social construction of reality by thomas luckman and peter berger.. go, read, learn.
The Blank Slate by Stheven Pinker... Go. Read. Learn.
Will do!
but is it gender a social construct?
Yes totally
Very Nice presentations. Regarding your sensory neurons video. It was reported recently that there are specialized neurons for itch. I believe you can find the reference easily in Scientific American Mind a few months ago.
Thanks for the info. That is really interesting!
ok!
then ?
what's real then?
Nothing
No shit everything is a concept we made
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I hate this ideology
Hogwash.
Thank you for exposing how much BS social constructivism js
God is not social construct
what a load of bollocks lol
Bllshit.
Social CONSTRUCTIVISM...just saying.
thank you