What does Social Construction mean to you?

Question

Give me a Sociology defintion PLZ.

Answer 1

Although there is a perpetual debate on the use of "social construction" in the sciences, this is the definition I tend to hold while reading sociological lit, and thanks to your query, I spent the time to find where I got it from:
"what I have tried to illustrate in this section is the manner in which the forces active in the social order played a critical role (though not the only role) in the establishment of the scientific way of knowing -- the epistemology of modern science." Mendelsohn, Weingart and Whitley (1977).
MW & Whitley hold that social construction is only partially responsible for knowledge, while one of the debates on the definition is whether SC is responsible for all of our knowledge.

Answer 2

social construction, social construct or social concept is an institutionalised entity or artifact in a social system 'invented' or 'constructed' by participants in a particular culture or society that exists solely because people agree to behave as if it exists, or agree to follow certain conventional rules.

Obvious social constructs include such things as games, language, money, school grades, titles, governments, universities, corporations and other institutions. Less obvious, and more arguable, social constructs include class, race, gender, religion, sexuality, morality, memory and reality.

Social constructionism is a school of thought that attempts, to varying degrees, to analyze seemingly natural and given phenomena in terms of social constructs. Connotations of such analysis may seem to include made-up, accidental, arbitrary, and unreal, though this is rarely what social constructionists who use the term have in mind, for, according to most social constructionists, social constructions are very much real - they are a part of, or sometimes the entirety of, lived reality. Indeed, they have an ontological status in society as substantial as the ontological status of brute facts.

Social constructions must be seen in an institutional context, as arising from the institutionalisation of patterns of interaction and meaning in society leading to a construction of social institutions and institutionalised perspectives and understandings.

Answer 3

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