social construction
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsocialandconstruction
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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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construction
noun
uk/kənˈstrʌk.ʃən/us/kənˈstrʌk.ʃən/
the work of building or making something, especially buildings, ...
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(Definition ofsocialandconstructionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Chapter 6 provides a devastating assessment of the role of biomedicine in thesocialconstructionof old age.
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Reconsidering the life review : thesocialconstructionof talk about the past.
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As a study in thesocialconstructionof scientific and clinical knowledge, this book can hardly be bettered.
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Socialconstructiontheory, situated in apparent opposition to a biological essentialist approach, has been very influential in this work.
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Evidence for variability in diagnostic thresholds should not be misinterpreted as evidence that depressive illness is merely asocialconstructionor a culture-bound phenomenon.
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Third, he emphasises that demand for water is not fixed by nature, but is rather a function of thesocialconstructionof the crop mix.
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Indicators, which do not show clear (or any) stylistic patterning, would be excluded from this type ofsocialconstruction.
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His crowning achievement is his demonstration of the role of time in oursocialconstructionof reality.
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They highlight thesocialconstructionof a gendered division of domestic labour, and lend support to theories of equalisation in the retirement period.
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Rather, it was as much asocialconstructionas any other system of value and was susceptible, therefore, to displacement.
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Thesocialconstructionof the older person was as an individual who exercised to their own potential in the company of their peers.
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Thesocialconstructionof disability in organizations: why employers resist reasonable accommodations.
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Institutionalised ageism and sexism are examined as important aspects of thissocialconstructionof old age.
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Nevertheless, the book provides a solid foundation forsocialconstructionand should be considered as a valuable work of reference.
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Changing images of aging and thesocialconstructionof the life course.
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She draws on recent feminist and post-structuralist writings to discuss thesocialconstructionof women's homelessness and the forces that have shaped it.
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Here and elsewhere, the phrase 'socialconstruction' is used so frequently as to become rather meaningless.
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Such an approach gives emphasis to thesocialconstructionof the physical geography of the city.
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Thesocialconstructionof ageing is therefore an interactive process during which ideas and beliefs about ageing are negotiated and exchanged.
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