Recent debates concern the embodied cognition thesis resulting in the evidence, shared by many researchers that, although mathematics may be socially constructed, this construction is rooted in, and shaped by, the body and bodily experiences.
The results suggest that heat stress risks on construction site are socially constructed and can be effectively managed through elimination at supply chain level, effective engineering control, proactive control of the risks through individual interventions and reactive control through mindful recognition and response to early symptoms.
In other words, whereas knowledge is socially constructed as a meaning-making process, identity is the social construction of meaning-making about one's self.
The world is a product of socially and historically related interchanges amongst people (social construction).
This paper focuses on social construction of masculinities, and the term 'man' refers to a socially constructed concept rather than the biological sex.
I first borrow insights from the literature on "socially expected durations" (Merton, 1984) and on the social construction and production of the future (Adam & Groves, 2007, 2011; Luhmann, 1976).
If one concedes that the notion of childhood is socially constructed, it follows that this construction changes along time as social circumstances change.
In light of such cultural variation, some argue that emotions are socially constructed (Averill, 1980; Harré, 1986; Armon-Jones, 1989; also see the entry naturalistic approaches to social construction).
Doing so enables feminists to identity how sexed bodies are socially constructed in order to resist such construction.
Once the "disorder" has been socially constructed and defined, the methods of science can be employed to study it, but the construction itself is a social process, not a scientific one.
