Ep. 227: What Is Social Construction? (Hacking, Berger) (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Role of Internalization in Social Construction
The benchmark of what could be considered socially constructed is whether it's internalizable. Without that internalization, there's no mechanism for our representations of people to construct them, right? They don't get constructed just because we agree to represent them in some way unless they can internalize those representations. If you're talking about human behavior categorizations of humans by political, social, gender, sex, race, then by definition, those are all social constructs.
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