social construct

social constructivism

bedtime

dualism

nature - culture

wilderness

cultural construct

alarm clock

time

daylight saving time

is a name given not to a thing that is naturally out there, but to something composed of a network of precisely historically situated factors (i.e. Social, political, economic, biological, relational, etc,).

Sexuality must not be thought of as a kind of natural given which power tries to hold in check, or as an obscure domain which knowledge tries gradually to uncover. It is the name that can be given to a historical construct: not a furtive reality that is difficult to grasp, but a great surface network in which the stimulation of bodies, the intensification of pleasures, the incitement to discourse, the formation of special knowledges, the strengthening of controls and resistances, are linked to one another, in accordance with a few major strategies of knowledge and power. [p. 106]

social construct, n.All

social construct