The Social Construction of Reality

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>time is a social construct
>happiness is a social construct
>morality is a social construct
>gender is a social construct
>reality is a social construct

enough

>>9697363
Haven't read it yet but its in the queue. Make a thread once you finish it I'm curious.

Those names sound awful echoey...

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let's see if pain is socially constructed

>>9697594
>t. person who has not read it

Social constructs are a social construct

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>>9697363
Haven't read that, but did read pic related, and it was first-rate. Going in, I was skeptical of the book's claims, but the evidence persuaded me. A really eye-opening book (among other things, its conclusions are consistent with the current "replication crisis" in science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis).

>>9697640
Too bad Latour went crazy and thinks that pieces of chalk have souls now

>>9697648
Geez, really? Sad. Lab Life is a fine piece of academic writing, and too, written with some panache.

>>9697684
I'm making a joke about his actor network theory thing, apparently he had some kind of personal crisis about science studies and hangs out with the object oriented ontology weirdos now (basically a bunch of people who do Husserlian phenomenology as naively as possible and pretend it's innovative)

>>9697363
I read part of it for a course. It really changed my mind about the field of sociology. On the first few pages (maybe even the first two, I can't remember) you're already reading about Hegel, Marx and Nietzsche. And the book is very easy to follow and very useful for anyone interested in institutions.

But as this thread shows, social construct has some new connotations. The book has nothing to do with "hurr just a social construct it's not real bro" or whatever people want to project onto it.