Biological construction is referring to our body structure and function that construct our experience to our reality. For example, as human, we can see, hear, taste, smell and touch things to get experience to the world. However, for bats, they use echolocation as their sense and communication method. Bats having the much more sensitive hearing function than human, therefore they experience the world differently as human.
Sexual orientation
For sexual orientation, many scientist try to find out what determine our sexual orientation. They found that hypothalamus, which is the part of our brain that control our sexual drive and other function, has an important role of determining whether we are heterosexual or homosexual. Homosexual subject have larger suprachiasmatic nucleus and anterior commissure of the hypothalamus then heterosexual. Our sexual orientation is biological constructed.
Race
Also, for race, I will show race is a biological construct in this paragraph. The different genes of race are 15 percent up of the 85 percent human genes have found. We born different. Every race have their unique genes. Example for that would be most of the winner in the Olympics games of marathon are African. …show more content…
From Plato 's allegory of the cave we can understand our position in the world. We have been fixed and chain up by our limited knowledge and social construction, which is similar to the prisoners. The knowledge and opinions we received create what is “normal” for us, which is a form of social construction. It is similar to the shadow of those paper cut-outs as we have been block by “normal” and it makes us just believe the opinion on things but never really understand them. Our reality have been controlled in certain way by social construction, it affects our experience to the world. By that, I conclude Plato’s allegory of the cave is a good reflection of our
Sexual orientation
For sexual orientation, many scientist try to find out what determine our sexual orientation. They found that hypothalamus, which is the part of our brain that control our sexual drive and other function, has an important role of determining whether we are heterosexual or homosexual. Homosexual subject have larger suprachiasmatic nucleus and anterior commissure of the hypothalamus then heterosexual. Our sexual orientation is biological constructed.
Race
Also, for race, I will show race is a biological construct in this paragraph. The different genes of race are 15 percent up of the 85 percent human genes have found. We born different. Every race have their unique genes. Example for that would be most of the winner in the Olympics games of marathon are African. …show more content…
From Plato 's allegory of the cave we can understand our position in the world. We have been fixed and chain up by our limited knowledge and social construction, which is similar to the prisoners. The knowledge and opinions we received create what is “normal” for us, which is a form of social construction. It is similar to the shadow of those paper cut-outs as we have been block by “normal” and it makes us just believe the opinion on things but never really understand them. Our reality have been controlled in certain way by social construction, it affects our experience to the world. By that, I conclude Plato’s allegory of the cave is a good reflection of our