On Social Construction

Posted on August 20th, 2012 by martijn.
Categories: anthropology, Method.

This is an interesting video and very useful for teaching purposes made by Lisa Wade and Gwen Sharp of the wonderful blog Sociologcial Images. They explain in a very concrete way the idea of social construction; a key concept in sociology and anthropology that refers to how people giving to the world. As they explain social constructions (like race) are powerful and often contested; understanding social constructions is therefore important.

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UPDATE:

Lisa Wade and Gwen Sharp won the Citasa Award for Public Sociology and the annual ASA conference. Congratulations, well deserved!

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