Sentence examples for as a social construct from inspiring English sources
More than before, I see the tension of audience membership as a social construct that need not apply in all circumstances.
But concrete power resides in America's careerist technocracy, for which the elite schools, with their ideological view of gender as a social construct, are feeder cells.
The challenge is that as a social construct with no basis in fact, patterns of racism are always shifting, as the range of issues that Runnymede has tackled over the past 43 years highlights.
Black may have been beautiful in the 1960's, and powerful in the 1970's, but it has also become increasingly viewed by cultural historians as a social construct, one fixed in place only by racism itself.
Scholars like Esther Newton, Gayle Rubin, Anne Fausto-Sterling and Judith Butler ushered in an era that reconceived gender as a social construct, distinct from both a person's sex and sexuality.
For writers and fans like Larry Correia, whose virulent attack on MacFarlane was excellently dissected by Jim C Hines, sex is a biological imperative and the idea of gender as a social construct is a damn liberal lie!
Rosin got it right when she speaks of masculinity as "entirely a social construct, a kind of warrior mask or armor men have insisted on wearing".
For these and related reasons many scholars view racial identity as primarily a social construct [ 18- 22], and one that can misdirect the categorization of participants in biomedical research.
The very notion of evidence and the boundaries of what counts as evidence is a social construct, as evidence is always the product of a socially produced question.
As knowledge is a social construct, our interpretation of the participants' accounts could be influenced by our own beliefs and assumptions.
I find it useful in that context to consider Benedict Anderson's seminal analysis of national identity as an "imagined community" – a social construct that channels atavistic mythologies through modern cultural institutions.
