"If they construct that, there will be more people, more problems, more cars, more commotion and everything else.
[They] are used both graphically and, in a sense, culturally and visually, and so they construct that sense of mystery and distance very typical of Pettibon's work".
There are a number of social constructs, which one must remember are extremely strong arbiters of identity and the employment of power by dominant cultures, and not weakened merely by the fact that they are socially constructed, that are ostensibly "under attack" in the so-called culture wars that have been engaging public life in America for the last several decades.
Many of the obstacles to happiness in our lives are socially constructed: that is, they are the product of a society in which great prosperity is allowed to coexist with insecurity and poverty.
Primarily, racial differences are socially constructed: that is, they are the product of society.
All the music is constructed that way.
The ancient Romans, who kept fish for food and entertainment, were the first known marine aquarists; they constructed ponds that were supplied with fresh seawater from the ocean.
Along with the townspeople, they constructed breastworks that formed a defensive line south of Corydon.
Since they used a Cre construct that is only expressed in neurons (Synapsin I-Cre), they could follow Cre mediated recombination in neurons via loss of RFP.
"For Bow Wow and those like him, that's just part of the image that they need to construct and to a certain extent, they're being pressured to construct that image from their fans," Drouin said.
