Social Construction Research Paper

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Teaching Social Construction of Reality in the Basic Course: Opening Minds and Integrating Units

Every day we tend to learn more and more about our identities, emotions and relationships. By discovering new things we tend to create and change our personalities in time. As our personalities are evolving in time our approach to the world and how we interpret situations can be quite different comparing to other people. Language, culture and our family have huge impact in our personalities. Therefore Social Construction is a field which attracts a lot of research to help people open their minds. This paper is going to describe briefly different theories about social construction of reality, what affects our socialization, role of our families
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Identity, emotions and relationships are a few of the aspects of human behavior and cognition that have been studied. Human identity develops since childhood and continues to develop in time. Berger and Luckman (1966) define identity as the formation of self-concept primary socialization. Authors point out that the time when a child comes to understand the world and eventually him or herself through twin perceptual filters of the social group and the family within which the child is raised.
Language that we use to understand ourselves, pays a great importance to the concept of self depend. Culture impacts significant role on social construction. Whether we come from places with a collectivist culture we might view ourselves as part of a group or society rather than viewing ourselves as unique individuals. On the other side Gergen said:
“To construct persons in such a way that they possess inherent sin is to invite certain lines of action and not others. Or to treat depression, anxiety, or fear as emotions from which people involuntarily suffer is to have far different implications than to treat them as chosen, selected, or played out as on a stage” (1985,