Examples Of A Social Construct

We all live in a world where we see Social Constructs happen all over us. Many of us don’t even know what it is until it is explained to us. Gender, race, even state borders are all a Socially Construct. We even have done it to “nature,” we no longer think of ourselves being one with “nature” it is a separate thing, we use “naturework” to turn “nature” into our own culture (Gould & Lewis 15). First, what is a Social Construct? It doesn’t physically exist, so what is it? A Social Construct are the things that us humans have created in a social sense. Lines on a map do physically exist, but those lines don’t appear on the Earth. Those lines are invisible and just accepted culturally and socially and what is. That’s a Social Construct. There are social consequences for breaking a Social Construct. Gender and gender roles is an example, we are born either with a biological sex, it is a Social Construct to attach gender and attach traits to these sexes, such as wearing blue for men or wearing pink for women. It’s why women are expected to be feminine and men should be masculine. Race is another example, we are all human, yet the melanin in our skin have attached behaviors and expectations to them. They are both Social Constructs

We often don’t think of ourselves as the animals that we are, therefore; we have started to think of ourselves as better than the rest of the animals. We are nature, but we don’t think so (Social Construct Notes). Going into the woods, that’s nature in our minds, but going to city, that doesn’t seem like nature one bit, yet it is. Everything is nature. We have turned “nature” into an escape or a culture, which is what “naturework” is. There isn’t any “raw” nature left (Gould & Lewis 15). We have created “nature” as a Social Construct, and there are social consequences if a person steps out of what is