Sociology / Unit 4 Soc 0465 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Social Construction of Reality
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The idea
The social construction of reality is the process by which people, through interaction, create shared understandings that then confront them as objective facts.
In practice
Money buys things because everyone treats it as valuable; the paper contributes nothing.
Where people slip
Socially constructed does not mean unreal — constructed facts have hard consequences.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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