I don’t understand how so many people seem to understand the concept just fine. It sounds oddly complicated to me. The concept to me sounds like collectively concluded delusion or like if society collectively concludes something to be objectively real, that means it’s objectively real. Maybe I’m not understanding correctly?
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Imagine we decided to sort people above 6 foot tall as “tallies” and people below as “shorties”. Then we made separate clubs, bathrooms, etc for each group.
The group is an observable. You can measure height. It has physical meaning. But it only exists as a group because we made it that way.
Height is a physical thing but our choice to sort based on height is a social construct.
You can apply this to any grouping of people. It’s all somewhat arbitrary.
If you do this analysis enough times you realize all forms of categorization are social constructs.
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