Quotes About Social Construction

#1. The social construction of public administration concerns itself less with how policy

Jong S. Jun

#2. Gender identity is our internal response to a social construction that attempts to make a connection between a person's biological makeup and their eventual role in society.

Sam Killermann

#3. The homage paid to the fragment and the dismantling of the large narratives had had their spatial counterpart in the lack of integrated and conceptual vision of urban construction, and perhaps also of social construction.

Sverker Sorlin

#4. I think the idea of the social construction of beauty - this idea that beauty is simply whatever culture or society says it is - is on the run. Of course, beauty does arise in a cultural context. No one ever denies that. But there's also a natural response people have to it.

Denis Dutton

#5. Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.

Havelock Ellis

#6. Reality" is defined not as something that exists "out there" for the scientist or anyone else to discover but as a social construction that emerges from and is sustained by social interaction.

Peter Conrad

#7. I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.

Anne Enright

#8. Marxism is a Western construction - a conceptualization of human affairs and historical development that is emergent from the historical experiences of European peoples mediated, in turn, through their civilization, their social orders, and their cultures.

Cedric J. Robinson

#9. I had become a bit annoyed with Fermi . . . when he suddenly offered to take wagers from his fellow scientists on whether or not the bomb would ignite the atmosphere, and if so, whether it would merely destroy New Mexico or destroy the world.

Richard Rhodes

#10. It is painful those feelings of pain,
but accept it with love to see the gain.

Debasish Mridha

#11. Music is always my great escape ... I get to be that wild child and do whatever the hell I want on stage.

Perry Farrell

#12. I'd rather hug Magic Johnson after he rolled around in barbed wire.

Jim Norton

#13. Everything that is given to us in life is either a blessing or a curse.

Seth Adam Smith

#14. I don't do that many appearances at conventions. I like to keep them special for me. And for the fans, I hope.

Anthony Daniels

#15. I play the radio and moon about ... and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer forever.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#16. Others, including those with a social theory influence, talk about securitization primarily in terms of practices, context, and power relations that characterize the construction of threat images.

Thierry Balzacq

#17. If there's a role you're playing and there's a great deal of material to explore because the person was real then it's a completely different preparation time and message to playing someone fictional.

Emma Thompson

#18. Social media is great for collective sharing, but not always so great for collective building. Good for collective destruction, but maybe not so good for collective construction.

Thomas L. Friedman

#19. Having lasted for 4,000 years, the use of nature's materials to express ideas about nature may be expected to continue. The best garden designs are produced with an awareness of the art, science, history, geography, philosophy, social habits and construction techniques of their period.

Tom Turner

#20. Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Charles Kettering

#21. The massive prison construction represents a commitment by our nation to plan for social failure by spending billions of dollars to lock up hundreds of thousands of people while at the same time cutting billions of dollars
from programs that would provide opportunity to young Americans.

Steven Donziger

#22. We live in a world populated by structures - a complex mixture of geological, biological, social, and linguistic constructions that are nothing but accumulations of materials shaped and hardened by history

Manuel De Landa

#23. Each moment is an opportunity to make a fresh start.

Pema Chodron

#24. The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project that has changed U.S. society enormously.

Noam Chomsky

#25. We are precarious. Which is to say some good things (accumulation of diverse
knowledges, skills and abilities through work and life experiences in permanent
construction), and a lot of bad ones (vulnerability, insecurity, poverty, social
exposure).

Lisa Adkins

#26. Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order

John Dewey

#27. Kids love me. I can bounce back and forth. I can discipline kids, and I can get into the mind of a kid. In my brain, I consider myself the ultimate video game player. The ultimate snack maker.

J. B. Smoove

#28. Ask , and it shall be given until you. That is no vain or untried promise, Ruth!

Elizabeth Gaskell

#29. Make friends with nature by working in harmony with her and she will make friends with you.

Emmet Fox

#30. If we are to talk in the language of social constructions, then the construction of the very concepts of the social and the biological must also be elucidated.

Denise Riley