What is a social construct? Can anyone in anthro give a good definition for the term?
How many of the following things are social constructs?
>money
>marriage
>etiquette
>hospitality
>gender roles
>decency
>success
>law
What is a social construct? Can anyone in anthro give a good definition for the term?
Lincoln Richardson
Aaron Martin
The Social Construction of What? by Hacking opens with a very lucid explanation.
Thomas Sanchez
Social constructs are spooks
Hudson Miller
All of them are social constructs because none would exist without society.
Jonathan Brown
there we go
Isaiah Barnes
If society were structured differently would X mean the same thing?
Brandon Davis
Suppose everyone on Earth got total amnesia at the same time. Does the thing still exist? If no, then it's socially constructed.
Oliver Ramirez
i think success is factually determined
if a species fails to survive, it was not successful. if a species propagates, it was. this sort of thing isn't subjective
Camden Allen
By that logic, moss is kicking our ass, it's been around for like 500 million years and still kicking ass and we are failing miserably after a few thousand years of civilazation.
We are kinda shit at evolution, way too fragile. Applying evolutionary logic to humans just ends nowhere.
Kayden Williams
>We are kinda shit at evolution
The ONLY criteria is that we are still here. We are on par with moss. End of story.