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The Social Construction of Reality

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The social construction of reality is the process by which people, through interaction, create shared understandings that then confront them as objective facts.

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Money buys things because everyone treats it as valuable; the paper contributes nothing.

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Socially constructed does not mean unreal — constructed facts have hard consequences.