“Yet still, beneath all the marketing and social construction of attitudes and desires and shopping habits, there is a deep yearning for… — Jessica Pierce Copy Share Image
“If we are to talk in the language of social constructions, then the construction of the very concepts of the social and… — Denise Riley Copy Share Image
“It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Each worldview was a cultural product, but evolution is true and separate creation is not. [...] Worldviews are social constructions, and they… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
“I have been to many religious services over the years. Each one I go to only reinforces my general impression that religions… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“The history of Chile, like many other national histories south of the Rio Grande, provides an important vantage point from which U.S.… — Elizabeth Quay Hutchison Copy Share Image
Any gay person understands at some point that he or she has to disappear, to become invisible. That's very difficult. You somehow… — Abdellah Taia Copy Share Image
“There are times when I'm alone and I think, This is it. This is actually the natural state. All I need are… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The Black Belt is the home of our social construction - it is from here that we are everything America has permitted… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
And I found out about the wonderful world of sign language. I suddenly realized: If we as a society recognize Jewish culture,… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Markets are a social construction, they're made from institutions. We in a democratic society create markets, we constitute markets, we bring them… — Douglas Massey Copy Share Image
“This is what the bourgeois political economists have done: they have treated value as a fact of nature, not a social construction… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
We live in a funny time, a funny era, when desire, to be adult desire, has to be conceived as sexual. And… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“The homage paid to the fragment and the dismantling of the large narratives had had their spatial counterpart in the lack of… — Sverker Sörlin Copy Share Image
Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
I think the idea of the social construction of beauty - this idea that beauty is simply whatever culture or society says… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
World views are social constructions and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“One could understand feminism generally as an attack on woman as she was under “patriarchy” (that concept is a social construction of… — Harvey Mansfield Copy Share Image
“Race is different purely as a social construction, not as inherent difference. And religion - whether you believe in God or Yahweh… — David Levithan Copy Share Image