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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Simply put, it’s a pattern.
Humans are creatures that crave patterns, it’s wired into us as a tool our brain used to survive. Patterns is what allowed us to hunt together, produce together, and innovate together.
So what happens is we then also identify the patterns societies engage in. Especially today many feel that these patterns were intentionally crafted, a form of social conspiracy theory, but the fact is any large society will automatically develop rituals, customs, and norms over time and the patterns these create will be “social constructs”
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