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We have read on many different levels of social construction. Family to start with. In our readings it was pointed out that African American won’t get married. From a personal point of view, I was with my daughter father since I was in high school so that about thirty years maybe a little more or less. My goal was to have a father figure in my daughters’ life. It not that I did not want to get married, I felt that we both had some growing up to do. No one wants to placed in a situation where there would be regrets, hate, anger, and violence. Over time, as we began to grow there was still a need of maturity on his part. So why marry a person who still has a need/lot to figure out for themselves? After raising my daughter, I moved on with my life I found a wonderful man with maturity and wanted to be married. So yell it took until I turned four-five year of age to get married but I did get married. It is all about making the right choices. So in this area social construction did affected me by prejudgment. Yes. Some times you just have to know what's going to be best for you and everyone around you. …show more content…
If you look into our state (Colorado) and only our state, you will see that our school system is still segregated. I’m not talk about race or by ethnicity but by class. The upper class has the better school district with the best teacher teaching their children and the students moving on to college. While the school in the lower and working class will be provided with a teacher who don’t want to teach in their area and will be paid less. The lower and middle class is also provided with less school material and less equipment to teach their student/ children making it difficult to teach. Making it more problematic give the teacher and the students less of a chance to succeed. So yes, this not only affected me, but others people in my community as well as our kid’s

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