social construct
noun
formal
: an idea that has been created and accepted by the people in a society
Class distinctions are a social construct.
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Personhood for companies was a useful legal fiction, a social construct.
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David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
Race, some argue, is a social construct, a relic of the 18th century.
—Tribune News Service, Boston Herald, 26 Apr. 2024
Successfully navigating this change requires a multidimensional approach focusing, in part, on embracing the whole life career and longevity mindset by addressing and rejecting ageism as a social construct.
—Sheila Callaham, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
The past few years have seen a groundswell of concern from researchers about how race, a social construct not based in biology, is misused in biomedicine.
—Byjocelyn Kaiser, science.org, 30 Oct. 2024
Race is a social construct that reveals little about ancestry.
—Cassandra Willyard, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
Check a box for race (a social construct and not a biological reality, though the consequences are extremely real).
—Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2024
Both Gergen and Maturana espouse the view that reality is purely a social construct.
—Richard Halstead, The Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2024
Experts do not feel like biologic differences drive this inequity, especially given that race is a social construct and cannot be genetically or biologically defined.
—Dr. Angela Zhang, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2024
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David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
Race, some argue, is a social construct, a relic of the 18th century.
—Tribune News Service, Boston Herald, 26 Apr. 2024
Successfully navigating this change requires a multidimensional approach focusing, in part, on embracing the whole life career and longevity mindset by addressing and rejecting ageism as a social construct.
—Sheila Callaham, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
The past few years have seen a groundswell of concern from researchers about how race, a social construct not based in biology, is misused in biomedicine.
—Byjocelyn Kaiser, science.org, 30 Oct. 2024
Race is a social construct that reveals little about ancestry.
—Cassandra Willyard, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
Check a box for race (a social construct and not a biological reality, though the consequences are extremely real).
—Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2024
Both Gergen and Maturana espouse the view that reality is purely a social construct.
—Richard Halstead, The Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2024
Experts do not feel like biologic differences drive this inequity, especially given that race is a social construct and cannot be genetically or biologically defined.
—Dr. Angela Zhang, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2024
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“Social construct.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/social%20construct. Accessed 19 Jan. 2025.
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