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social construct
[soh-shuhl kon-struhkt]
noun
a complex concept or practice shared by a society or group, not arising from any natural or innate source but built on the assumptions upheld, usually tacitly, by its members.
The Green Party supports the EU in viewing disability as a social construct and recognizes the well-established link between poverty and disability.
Word History and Origins
Origin of social construct1
Example Sentences
Beatty’s cascading, relentless prose conjures a world in which the ridiculousness of race as a social construct leads to high absurdity.
The order calls for a purge of “divisive narratives that distort our shared history,” including works or exhibitions that reinforce the notion that “race is not a biological reality but a social construct.”
RaMell’s intuition that the best way of presenting the lives of Black people in a film would be to let viewers experience them, insofar as was possible, felt smart to me, especially if we agree that race is a social construct manufactured by design.
A social construct that we created to inventory passing days in a way that would best make sense to us when time, in and of itself, is more fluid.
Nancy Berns, a professor at Drake University, has done a lot of great work on closure and how it’s a social construct.
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