In order to make sense of this, it is helpful to distinguish object- and idea-construction (see Haslanger 2003b for more): social forces can be said to construct certain kinds of objects (e.g. sexed bodies or gendered individuals) and certain kinds of ideas (e.g. sex or gender concepts).
Second, take the idea-construction of sex concepts.
To illustrate further the idea-construction of sex, consider the case of the athlete Maria Patiño.
Gender is an idea-construction because the classification men/women is the contingent result of historical events and forces.
It would appear that gender (in different senses) is both an idea-construction and an object-construction.
Neither outcome will be engendered by our "new" technologies failing, but in our losing touch with our "old" biological technologies, the human brains (and bodies) that have given birth to ideas, constructions and sentiments for aesthetic reflection.
In the analysis, our aim was to examine data at a latent level, examining the underlying ideas, constructions and discourses that shape or inform the semantic content of the data.
In the analysis, our aim was to examine data at a latent level, examining the underlying ideas, constructions and discourses that shape or inform the semantic content of the data, interpreted within a material-discursive-intrapsychic theoretical framework [ 77].
Twenty-one carefully selected projects are presented in detail, from the initial idea through construction to the completed work.
Sol Aramendi, a photographer based in Queens and an activist with NICE, first joined Hana Georg, a local electrician, to propose the idea to construction laborers, who were immediately enthusiastic.
