Social Construction Quotes

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  • Markets are a social construction, they're made from institutions. We in a democratic society create markets, we constitute markets, we bring them into existence, and we shouldn't turn markets over to a narrow group of people who regulate them and run them in their interests, rather they should be run democratically for the common good.

    Running   People   Groups  
    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • I think the idea of the social construction of beauty - this idea that beauty is simply whatever culture or society says it is - is on the run. Of course, beauty does arise in a cultural context. No one ever denies that. But there's also a natural response people have to it.

  • Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.

    Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.109, Elsevier
  • healthy, adj. There are times when I'm alone that I think, This is it. This is actually the natural state. All I need are my thoughts and my small acts of creation and my ability to go or do whatever I want to go or do. I am myself, and that is the point. Pairing is a social construction. It is by no means necessary for everyone to do it. Maybe I'm better like this. Maybe I could live my life in my own world, and then simply leave it when it's time to go.

    David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.105, Macmillan
  • Any gay person understands at some point that he or she has to disappear, to become invisible. That's very difficult. You somehow have to kill yourself. This is asked of people who haven't got the tools to understand that it's all a social construction, and that they shouldn't inferiorize themselves. This is asked of little kids. But I still live in the same outcome.

    Kids   Gay   People  
    "No one is capable of freeing oneself from society". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. October 7, 2014.
  • Each worldview was a cultural product, but evolution is true and separate creation is not. [...] Worldviews are social constructions, and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully. Fact and theory are intertwined, and all great scientists understand the interaction.

    Stephen Jay Gould (1993). “Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history”, Vintage
  • I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.

  • World views are social constructions and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully.

    Stephen Jay Gould (1993). “Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history”, Vintage
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