social construction
The process whereby phenomena that appear to exist independently of society are shown, counterintuitively, to be understood in socially contingent ways, or even to be materially altered by society. Social constructionist arguments can apply purely to knowledge or also to the biophysical world. They became increasingly significant in human geography from the early 1970s, as the ideal of ... ...
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