Social Contructionism In chapter 2 of Surette, Social constructionism is a sociological theory of knowledge that consist how social objects of consciousness work in social contexts. There is often a debate about whether something is "real" or if it’s "merely" a social construct. For instance, If you believe social constructions aren't real, then please take out all the bills in your wallet and pass them up to me. Money is an example of a social construction that plays an extremely important role in our everyday lives. All those paper bills and coins are "just" paper and metal, and all that money in your bank account is "just" some numbers in a computer. Think about that for a moment. You may ruin the economy construction, which is assumptions on based on reality, knowledge, and learning. Social construction has several factors that happen daily such as language, symbols, color, food, gestures, and people. Social construct may apply with language because certain sounds in languages have certain meanings when communicating. This would suggest that language is a social construction created as a patterned system of communication. Reflecting our social context it follows that language is culturally. The forms and the categories of language reflect the social codes of the society in which we live in. The French led the way on the deconstruction of language, viewing it as a socially class conscious voice of influence. However, Karl Marx was really the Post-Structuralists and the Post-Modernists who viewed language as a powerful tool of class consciousness and clandestine class control. In short, language brought about a “cause and effect” process. In the very early writing, he took the function of language as a system of maintaining society’s class structure status quo. Society has supported this argument by looking at early writings, and asserted that literature was written and viewed by the privileged, and its purpose was to keep language and knowledge
