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Social Construction Of Reality: Documentary Analysis

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The idea of the social construction of reality is to understand what is man-made and what is not, it is proving that something could not have existed had we not built it; and we do not need it built it at all. The documentary shows lots of great examples for the social construction of reality, one of them being religion. We know religion is one of man's ways to explain what they don’t understand. Religions around the world came up with legends and ideas that explained why unforeseen events happen. It seems to be that a large part of religion is merely a social construct. Religious beliefs, piety, doctrines, etc., are all products of man. If we say that religion is a social construction of reality, then lots of the points made in the documentary …show more content…

(female XX, male XY) According to this sociological theory, our civilization gives us gender roles, these roles are considered ideal and/or suitable for a person of particular gender. Example: It is society's opinion that men should have more power than women, so this is the way that women and men are taught from birth. Race is not biological. It is a social construct. There is no biological differences between different ‘races’. ‘There is no gene or cluster of genes common to all blacks or all whites. Were race “real” in the genetic sense, racial classifications for individuals would remain constant across boundaries.'' (http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/06/16/how-fluid-is-racial-identity/race-and-racial-identity-are-social-constructs) These examples are social constructs because they are not natural. None of these are given in man's natural environment. Therefore Religion, Gender, and Race can be considered social constructions of …show more content…

Back then women were seen as baby makers instead of people, Women were used for procreation and procreation only. Their reason to live was to please their husband and make his life in better in any way that she could. Women’s rights were at a very low point, different women came up in the documentary telling the tales of their unfair doctors. They were treated like they couldn’t emotionally handle burying their baby. Jackie from the documentary says this way of thinking gave her no closure, they were told to forget it, pretend it didn’t happen. Women were deemed so emotionally weak that they were told that they weren’t capable of telling their husband their baby died, it was a man’s job. Alice Niles said ‘’ it left a scar on me’’ where her husband said ‘it’s unfair for the mother to not have been there’. For years women were banned from seeing or cradling their newborn infant, lied to about the health of their baby, denied information about the burial site, and were told ‘ take your wife on a vacation and get her pregnant again , she will forget.’’ If any of this would happen now adays it would cause a national

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Her compassion pushed her to take a stand, and fight for birth control for these women so that they could lead better and more fulfilling lives. Margaret believed that forcing women to undergo life-threatening births, and having children that they could not care for was essentially murder to both mother and children. Ironically Margaret’s mother was a devoted catholic, which in most cases because of Catholic faith often rejects birth control and views it as sinful, and Margaret fought for it to be allowed in the United States. Margaret noticed while working as a nurse that if women became pregnant and realized that they could not afford the child, they would seek abortions in unsanitary clinics and often became injured or worse in the process.

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Trying to prevent neglected children and back-alley abortions, Margaret Sanger gave the moving speech, “The Children’s Era,” in 1925 to spread information on the benefits and need for birth control and women's rights. Margaret Sanger--activist, educator, writer, and nurse--opened the first birth control clinic in the United States and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. During most of the 1900’s, birth control and abortions were illegal in the United States, causing women to give birth unwillingly to a child they must be fully responsible for. This caused illness and possible death for women attempting self-induced abortion. Sanger uses literary devices such as repetition and analogies

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