social construct
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsocialandconstruct
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social
adjective
uk/ˈsəʊ.ʃəl/us/ˈsoʊ.ʃəl/
relating to activities in which you meet and spend time with other people and that happen during the time when you are ...
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construct
noun[C]
uk/ˈkɒn.strʌkt/us/ˈkɑːn.strʌkt/
an idea or an ...
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(Definition ofsocialandconstructfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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I use the term generically as asocialconstruct, rather than meaning an ideology which promotes supposedly autonomous individuals.
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They note that although race may be asocialconstruct, it has real social, economic, psychic, and physical consequences.
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Drawing from our own experiences with biological societies, a society of agents intuitively brings to mind a long-lived,socialconstruct.
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There race may still be evident as asocialconstruct, but it is one entirely in the mind of the analyst.
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Suppose it is a "socialconstruct" after all and draws on some disguised comprehensive moral views.
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Gender is this article is conceived as asocialconstructthat is culturally and historically relative.
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A far ming system is just as much asocialconstructas it is an economic or ecological one.
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It is nothing more than asocialconstruct.
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Language is a convention that is asocialconstruct.
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Viewing race as asocialconstruct, separable from biology, is in many ways an improvement on a narrow deterministic approach to genetics and race.
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To the extent that language is an evolved capacity as opposed to a meresocialconstruct, it must have emerged via natural selection.
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The law, as this text amply demonstrates, is asocialconstructthat changes in response to the world in which it functions.
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It is thesocialconstructthat is the focus of the present report and measure.
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The basic tension (dualism) he identifies as being between realist and idealist positions, which leads him to conclude that creativity needs to be understood as asocialconstruct.
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The first has been a highly simplistic equation between vision and perception, failing to acknowledge that the latter is a more multi-sensual and fundamentallysocialconstruct.
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At the least, conceiving of creativity as asocialconstruct, together with intelligence and musical ability/talent, should take us one step further down the road toward understanding.
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Bytheway states that old age does not exist as anything other than asocialconstructbecause it lacks a clearly identifiable beginning and end.
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Butler claims that gender is not a given, a biological necessity or determinedsocialconstruct, but rather something that we perform, more of a mask than an essence.
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They believe that it is a man-made concept, a religious concept, asocialconstructof no relevance to them.
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New issues dealt more with woman's condition as asocialconstruct, gender identity, and relationships within and between genders.
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