RE: Social construct.
December 20, 2022 at 2:13 am
(This post was last modified: December 20, 2022 at 2:15 am by Anomalocaris.)
(December 19, 2022 at 10:18 pm)paulpablo Wrote: I've seen some examples of what a social construct is using Google.
It seems fairly simple but I've come to a conclusion I can't think of much that isn't a social construct.
For example with a tree, I don't think there's an exact precise definition of when a dead tree stops being a tree or when a tree becomes a tree and stops being a seed.
Pretty much all definitions are based on one person communicating to another person vaguely what something is. Even if it's a precise explanation by normal social standards.
Am I missing the point of what a social construct is or has anyone got an obvious example of a non social construct.
in so far as “things” and “sets” are cognitive constructs, regardless of whether it seems to us such construct is “natural”, and human cognition is largely informed through social interaction, it is true all “things” and “set” as we think of the them are largely socially informed cognitive constructs.
in natural certain subset of animals are capable of freely interbreeding even though the boundary of most such subsets are in reality more fuzzy than we think. but that such a population constitute a “species” is a social construct