The social constructionist perspective believes that communication is a process whereby people in groups, using the tools provided by their culture, create collective representations of reality.
As babies we learn about the world from our family, or from whomever we were raised. As we grow and continue to learn more, we become more aware of the sets of roles and rules that guide our actions. My reality is shaped by my family. However, as we get older, we learn other people's reality. In some cases we chose to leave some aspects of our reality behind and cling to others.
Social constructionist, also, believe most of what we know and believe about the world comes to us through communication rather than through direct experience. From history books to our grandparents storytelling, we have learned about the world.
One major idea that we talk about that may not exist in other cultures, is how American women can protest their rights, be heard and eventually change the law of the land.
The one good thing about America is that, although you were raised and surrounded by your reality, you are not obligated to keep all of your reality, some of your reality, or non of your reality. In America, we have the freedom to pick and choose our reality. Our parents may not like it, but we have the ultimate responsibility of making ourselves happy and successful.
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I think you have a lot of the same ideas as me. As Americans we learn from the day we are born our values and beliefs based on what we are taught. But as we grow up we get wise and learn to either accept the beliefs and values as our or reject them and create our own. It gives us the ability to be our own person and not be influenced by others.
Settle4What...I agree with you that here int he United States one has more freedom than anywhere else to create an individual world view and act upon it. While this is true, however, I still believe that one's success can be directly linked to how well one follows and applies social norms (Lets put it this way...most of us here in California just wouldn't cut it out in Oklahoma without a drastic change on our world view and what we view as social norm. We may have more freedom than anyone else to rebel...but we also experience equal (if not greater) pressures to conform.
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