tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post5112334404091283756..comments2024-03-23T04:01:39.348-04:00Comments on Understanding Society: Social construction?Dan Littlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15953897221283103880noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post-79255923251232219482017-04-23T12:37:08.297-04:002017-04-23T12:37:08.297-04:00I think social constructs are driven and sustained...I think social constructs are driven and sustained by fear while their opposites are driven and sustained by love._atchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07276531629170791340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post-17600452849718114672016-07-05T22:15:12.060-04:002016-07-05T22:15:12.060-04:00But is society itself considered a social construc...But is society itself considered a social construct?Melissa Wellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05199861182503685355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post-38528172097915791872008-01-20T17:09:00.000-05:002008-01-20T17:09:00.000-05:00I enjoy the spirit of this post but I wonder about...I enjoy the spirit of this post but I wonder about how cleanly you try to separate "observers" and active participants. While I agree that not all examples are as clean as, say, the multiple personalities diagnosis that Hacking draws on so fruitfully, I would disagree with the contention that external observers' perceptions rarely affect the ongoings of the participants. <BR/><BR/>If the external observers are actually external in a meaningful way, alright - the Anthropologist who ventures into the Amazon tribe, lives for a year, leaves to write his book and construct his analysis and never comes back... Surely, his analysis has basically no impact on the tribe. But given the overlapping spheres of the media, activists, policy and politics, and academia, it would seem that for a great many 'external' observers they are not external so much as slightly apart. So, I would just say we need to be careful. The 'external observer' is not purely external simply because he or she does not have the trait/is not part of the community he or she studies - I may study Latino immigrants while myself being a Jewish native of the US, but my studies are not completely partitioned from the folks I am studying - there are connections of varying strengths.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07507086207394551238noreply@blogger.com