Socially Constructed Quotes

#1. Venting your primal self in an emotional moment can be more than your socially constructed self can handle after the fact," Alex says, her eyes gliding over me. "Look at you. Your hands are shaking. Your voice is weak. And your conscience is reasserting itself.

Mindy McGinnis

#2. If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus
more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia.

Thomas Sowell

#3. Only by recognizing the boundaries of our socially constructed scientific-technological reality can we transcend them in imagination and then achieve effective human action.

Jerome Ravetz

#4. In contemporary parlance, sex is biological and gender is socially constructed.

Rebecca Solnit

#5. One challenge of growing up in the twenty-first century will be to acquire a self-definition that can encompass person and planet, socially constructed self and transcendent being, organism and machine.

Walter Truett Anderson

#6. I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.

Carol Gilligan

#7. Realizing that inequality is socially constructed empowers us to be agents of change.

Julia T. Wood

#8. To be embraced, a change effort must be socially constructed in a process that gives everyone the right to set priorities, diagnose barriers , and generate options.

Gary Hamel

#9. The politics of transgender identity are really complicated. And the debate over how much of gender is biological and how much of it is socially constructed is a very complex debate.

Jess Row

#10. We live almost completely immersed in a socially constructed reality that so fully absorbs our energy and attention that virtually none remains to experience the wonder of our existence.

Duane Elgin

#11. Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

Judith Butler

#12. He loved Ty Grady with all there was to give of his heart, and in the end, all it had taken was one wink for Zane to finally come to terms with it. As

Madeleine Urban

#13. I'd always wanted to grow my hair out. And now looking back on those photos I understand why I probably shouldn't have ...

David Cook

#14. Life doesn't just happen; it's constructed through the history of power. And that's something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world that's trying to engage socially, with a leftist slant, to work out how we got here.

Mike Mills

#15. Death is not a self-evident phenomenon. The margins between life and death are socially and culturally constructed, mobile, multiple, and open to dispute and reformulation.

Margaret M. Lock

#16. Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.

Clifford Geertz

#17. For some men, life seems to be one long attempt to escape childhood and all the fears of childhood. That's what many of us are doing.

Peter Temple

#18. I've learned by hanging out in Hollywood, where I disagree politically with most people, that most people's hearts are in the right place, and the only thing we have to argue about is the way to solve the problems.

Tom Selleck

#19. I'm really close to my family. As I get older, it's like they're the only people I really talk to.

Lissie

#20. One looks forward to the day when the General Theory of Relativity and the Principia will outsell the Kama Sutra in back-street bookshops.

J.G. Ballard