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1. What makes something real? Most of the time the things we experience in this world are just constructs. We have opinions about everything and we experience the world through that lens. Social constructionism is a theory that knowledge and many aspects of the world around are not real in and of themselves. They only exist because WE give them reality through social agreement. Things like nations, books, and even money don’t exist in the absence of human society. Social constructionism is quite different in eastern and western philosophies. In eastern philosophies, social constructionism usually is relationship based. It’s interesting how everything is not what we usually believe. Some people never realize that these social constructs are more or less just an illusion. Everything we know, experience, and think, is meaning-mediated and meaning mediated by what is social; while anything beyond that is indeterminately irrelevant to what it is to be human. Social construction theory then is itself a social construction. We then have the possibilities of rejecting the theory, or alternatively grounding our humanness in adherence to and investment in the theory. Our choice here may depend on our personal ideology and development.
2 I found the section on non verbal communication to be quite interesting. My full time job is working with children with special needs. Many of my students do not speak and I rely on my knowledge of that student and their specific body movements to communicate with them. For example, I have a student that will respond “yes” by looking up and “no” by looking down. I find this skill to be very helpful and informative when I ask him a question. His eye gaze is clear and precise. I can continue along with questioning him in this manner if he is having a problem, such as uncomfortable seating in his wheelchair. Often times, society doesn’t see children who are non verbal as having a “voice”. They do. You just have to open yourself up to their world. It is one filled with much enlightenment and strong communication. After all, we all have the same need, to be heard, no matter what the form of communication.
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