Thursday, February 7, 2013
Social Construction of Reality
This week in class, we focused on the meaning of the social construction of reality. We did an activity of looking at the difference between spit and saliva. When you have saliva in your mouth, it's a normal thing, but the second it exits your mouth, it's known to be a "gross" thing. Why do we say its gross? This is because the creation is what is affecting out minds, when in reality..it's all the same spit and nothing has changed about it. So it was cool to look at how we just automatically judge things based on how we've always looked at it.
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I agree with what your saying. Looking at something so simple and common as spit. You see how people have influenced others to think about such things as spit. That stuffs gross as hell
ReplyDeleteJustyn,
ReplyDeleteI think you have the idea of social construction of reality correct, but just to be sure, the social part of that idea is that society determines how we feel about it; it's not just how we have always looked at it. Also, be sure to give an original example that applies the idea to something that you come up with.