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Social Construction In The Forest And The Trees

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Social construction is a theory that knowledge and many aspects around us are not exactly real. They only exist because the society itself give them reality through social agreement. Social construction relates to racial inequality in a sense where the people decide how certain type of people with different color of skin and features are treated in a society. In The Forest and the Trees, the author states “People participate in systems without being parts of the system themselves” (Johnson, 15). Individuals conform to the rules implemented and stigma that society creates. In relation to racial inequality, people are brought up into this system where black people inferior to the common white man. In the Ozawa and Thind supreme court case,
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