The Social Construction Of The Culture

When I think about the social construction in today's culture one word comes to mind, UNIQUE. Unique to the point of showing different types of social settings. But first, we need to understand what is the meaning of social construction. "It is common place in the humanities and the social sciences to claim that certain human features, such as someone’s gender, race, or sexual orientation, are socially constructed." (Diaz-Leon, E. 2015). The view of social construction is primarily focus on the nature of human categories sorely in a social way. It deal with the way we choose to connect with human interaction. In Dill's book, she brought up an great example of what we do in our media literacy. "A swastika, for example, is a symbol that is understood throughout the world to represent the Nazi movement." (How Fantasy Becomes Reality, 2009) Media Literacy is understanding the messages that are being transmitted through media. Media Literacy ties in with social construction for one reason, HUMAN FEATURES. We have built certain categories for our society to allow the ability transmit specific messages to each category. Since it is embedded into our society it will be hard to try and unravel the construction. " Social constructionism is taken to be a realist account of the nature of a certain category: it is claimed that the category is a real feature of human beings, but it is determined by social, rather than natural or biological properties." (Diaz-Leon, E. 2015) Sometimes that get blurry trying to decipher between the form of social construction and understanding why it was form.But, I'm happy a social construction been created. Without even knowing we find out exactly who we are. Or who we really want to be in this world. I admit we as a culture need a lot more kindness in the world. But, we also find the unique and different qualities in people had we not build this social construction. "For example, Berger and Luck-mann argue in their 1966 treatise, which is concerned primarily with the sociology of knowledge, that the "social order is not part of 'the nature of things."' Rather, it "exists only as a product of human activity.'" (Stabile, B. 2016) In this example, it shows that we created the system for the construction. We as a society took on the role creating the formula for social construction. The theory of social construction have been around for decades. This example took place in the mid-60's. Imagine all the additional research done at this point of time. Social construction formed our culture. "Our culture is our shared reality, created and maintained through common experience and through communication. Culture includes socially constructed meanings including shared beliefs, values and rules." (Dill, K. 2009) Dill understood how we connected based on two things, experience and communication. Dill also understood that the constructed meanings were our beliefs, values and rules. If someone ask the question of "can we destroy social construction?", I will respond with no. Believe it or but we need social construction to experience life and communication those experiences. And, for that we will always social construction.

Here's a link of social construction of stories:

https://www.edge.org/conversation/paul_dolan-the-social-construction-of-stories