Strict constructionism

Texas Customer vs. California based Widget Co. Widget Corporation, based in California, and the company President are being sued for damages caused by the installation of their product in Texas by a local handyman hired by Widget Co. Even though the Widget was incorporated in Delaware, California is considered the headquarters because business is conducted from that location. Civil law can generally be divided into two categories: substantive and procedural. Substantive law can be…

Normalizing is the social process by which values and ideologies become the ‘norm’. It relates to the concept of social construction because it is only by the complex social interaction of people in the society does a theory come to be normalized. Gender roles are an example of normalizing. By examining the concept of gender roles, it is concluded that it is a proposed hypothesis involving a group of communal and behavioural patterns that, within a precise culture, are widely considered to be…

What do you understand by the concept “Systems of Privilege”? Why is there resistance by those who possess it to recognize it? Support your answer with examples from BOTH of the following articles (1) Peggy McIntosh “White Privilege and Male Privilege” and (2) Iris Marion Young, “Five Faces of Oppression.” Try to connect the two readings and be sure to provide specific examples from both, including all five types of oppression. When you grow up, you start to realize that there are some things…

that most of us have the autonomy to decide which foods we eat, which political parties we support, etc. Ultimately, however, we are impacted by forces outside of our immediate control, and often our comprehension. We become elements in social constructionism, the understanding that our beliefs, social institutions, and ourselves are the result of culture and society. It is the basis of sociology, and permeates the entirety of our society. I agree with the concept of social constructivism…

This essay will posit that in contemporary Western societies a cultural contradiction is apparent. On the one hand there is anxiety surrounding child sexual abuse (CSA) particularly around the concept of ‘the paedophile’. Yet, this concern is situated within a socio-economic and cultural context that simultaneously constructs children as sexually desirable. This essay will argue that these should not be seen as separate issues but rather as interconnected. That is, it is only through seeing…

Case Study in Oppositional Reading: Facebook For an audience in the mass media to contribute to the social construct of reality, they must have the ability to read, interpret, evaluate, and contribute to that mass media. The negotiation of the definition of the reality that exists is the social construct of reality (Crouteau and Hoynes, 2014). One of the new mass media opportunities is Facebook and one of the newer uses for this devise is by small business owners to reach out to their customers…

Introduction If a real estate agent and a farmer are given the same piece of land, it is likely that the former will perceive it as a potential space for building, while the latter will see it as a land for growing food. Therefore, being the piece of land always the same, it derives that people might have different perceptions of nature according to their identities. To this extent, this paper will address the question of whether it exists a nature ‘out there’ as maintained by Positivism or if…

Young people have continually been a huge subject in our society. People often define youth as just a period between childhood and adult age, but youth is not simply that. There can be a variety of different ways in which we can identify youth and its true meaning in relation to different aspects and influences in our surroundings. Youth can be argued as a social construct rather than a universal concept because everyone has different experiences in their lives and not everyone experiences youth…

In society today race relationships and racism continue to shape our everyday lives. The fact of the matter is that we are either the person who is being judged because of our appearance and background or we are the person judging. Living in a society where white supremacy regimes race, class, and gender affect the types of privileges people have in comparison to others. Rights are always cut back when they conflict with the economic interests of the system. In the film Crash directed by Paul…

Analyzing Wal-Mart Wal-Mart is a nationwide cooperation that supplies cheap goods, decent pay, and friendly service to consumers all over the nation. The consumers request the items. These items could range from yogurt and lip gloss to clothes and a new flat screen. Whatever our needs/want Walmart always has what we’re looking for, and if it’s not the cheapest they have a program that always you to get that extra money spent back. So to basically some it up, Wal-Mart and Society is equal to…