Journal articles: 'Social-Construction of Nature'

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Hannigan, John A., and Klaus Eder. "The Social Construction of Nature." Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie 24, no. 4 (1999): 556. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3341793.

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Gifford, T. "The Social Construction of Nature." Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 3, no. 2 (October 1, 1996): 27–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isle/3.2.27.

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Prokhovnik, Raia. "Hobbes's Artifice as Social Construction." Hobbes Studies 18, no. 1 (2005): 74–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187502505x00052.

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AbstractThe paper argues that Leviathan can be interpreted as employing a constructionist approach in several important respects. It takes issue with commentators who think that, if for Hobbes man is not naturally social, then man must be naturally unsocial or naturally purely individual. First, Hobbes's key conceptions of the role of artifice and nature-artifice relations are identified, and uncontroversially constructionist elements outlined, most notably Hobbes's conceptualisation of the covenant. The significance of crucial distinctions in Leviathan, between the civil and the social, between science and philosophy, between mankind's nature and the human condition, is developed. A constructionist reading of the argument of Leviathan is then advanced. The interpretation focuses on the contribution of nature-artifice relations, and of Hobbes's notion of civil philosophy, in understanding the critical issues of the state of nature and individual subjectivity. This reconstruction of the meaning of the text highlights the necessarily social character of human life in Leviathan, expressed in the way that the social' gives meaning to the 'natural', as well as because for Hobbes we live in a mind-affected world of perception and ideas. Leviathan can be interpreted as, in particular, a political social construction, because both social and individual identity logically require the social order and arrangements that only a strong government can supply. The social world, in Leviathan, cannot exist prior to the generation of a political framework, in civil society, the commonwealth, and law.

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Peterson, Anna. "Environmental Ethics and the Social Construction of Nature." Environmental Ethics 21, no. 4 (1999): 339–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/enviroethics19992142.

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Crist, Eileen. "Against the Social Construction of Nature and Wilderness." Environmental Ethics 26, no. 1 (2004): 5–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/enviroethics200426138.

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Gerber, Judith. "Beyond dualism – the social construction of nature and the natural and social construction of human beings." Progress in Human Geography 21, no. 1 (February 1997): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/030913297671906269.

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Greider, Thomas, and Lorraine Garkovich. "Landscapes: The Social Construction of Nature and the Environment." Rural Sociology 59, no. 1 (February 3, 2010): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1549-0831.1994.tb00519.x.

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Mellor, Mary. "Women, nature and the social construction of ‘economic man’." Ecological Economics 20, no. 2 (February 1997): 129–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0921-8009(95)00100-x.

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Hosking, Dian Marie. "Social Construction as Process." Concepts and Transformation 4, no. 2 (December 31, 1999): 117–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cat.4.2.02hos.

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Here we outline one variant of social constructionism — one that emphasizes social ontologies as constructed in ongoing co-ordination processes. We stress that these may be constructed in relations between written and spoken words, non-verbal actions, artefacts, and objects 'in nature'. Relational processes often construct persons and worlds in either/or relations, but 'both/and' is also possible. We explore some 'new' both/and possibilities in various areas of practice showing, for example, that research can be viewed as construction and that it does not have to strive to enact the standard view of science. Instead, it might construct inclusive, multilogical, and heterarchical relations, constructing 'power to' go on in new ways. While social constructionist arguments do not demand any particular methods or relations, we suggest that there are good reasons why approaches of the sort described might be of value, might be more ecological, in today's fast', postcolonial, multi-cultural worlds.

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Gervais, Marie-Claude, and Klaus Eder. "The Social Construction of Nature: A Sociology of Ecological Enlightenment." British Journal of Sociology 48, no. 4 (December 1997): 704. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/591608.

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Murphy, Raymond, and Klaus Eder. "The Social Construction of Nature: A Sociology of Ecological Enlightenment." Social Forces 77, no. 3 (March 1999): 1234. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3005999.

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Jasper, James M., and Klaus Eder. "The Social Construction of Nature: A Sociology of Ecological Enlightenment." Contemporary Sociology 26, no. 6 (November 1997): 731. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2654648.

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Dake, Karl. "Myths of Nature: Culture and the Social Construction of Risk." Journal of Social Issues 48, no. 4 (January 1992): 21–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-4560.1992.tb01943.x.

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Maurer, PhD, Laura Levy. "The Social Construction of Mistrust." Research in Health Science 4, no. 3 (July 3, 2019): p177. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/rhs.v4n3p177.

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I intend to contribute to the knowledge base about the nature of mistrust as a social construct. My inquiry includes an unpacking of the construct of mistrust from the construct of trust based in the current literature. Once situated, I undertook a semiotic study of empirical data about the construct of mistrust based on the experiences of stakeholders in a local nonprofit organization as events unfolded during a 9-month period from August 2018 until April 2019. Applying repeated iterations of the data I constructed a contextualized thick description of mistrust. The findings of the study impact the common sense and didactic interpretations of mistrust. Practitioners of social change can apply the results to expand available strategies to mitigate mistrust and reduce the stresses that compromise the resources available to their communities and organizations to fulfill their objectives.

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Mai, Kate Thuy. "COVID-19 and performance: beyond a social construction." Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change 16, no. 4 (December 7, 2020): 663–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jaoc-08-2020-0118.

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Purpose The purpose of this essay is to reflect on my personal experience on my teaching performance during the COVID-19 pandemic and to share my investigation into the nature of performance phenomenon. Design/methodology/approach I reflected on my personal experience and thoughts about the phenomenon of performance. Findings My reflection points to an understanding that performance is a social-natural phenomenon, which can only be enabled and directed but cannot be controlled. Originality/value I shared some implications for understanding the nature of performance and performance management from an integrated worldview of physics, biology, psychology and neuroscience.

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Parekh, Gillian, Robert S. Brown, and Karen Robson. "The Social Construction of Giftedness." Canadian Journal of Disability Studies 7, no. 2 (July 5, 2018): 1–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v7i2.421.

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Wide socio-demographic disparities exist between students identified as gifted and their peers (De Valenzuela, Copeland, Qi, & Park, 2006; Leonardo & Broderick, 2011). In this paper, we examine the intersectional construction of giftedness and the academic achievement of students identified as gifted. Using data from the Toronto District School Board (TDSB), the largest and one of the most diverse public education systems in Canada, we consider racial, class, and gender characteristics of students identified as gifted in comparison to those who have very high achievement. Results demonstrated that there was almost no relationship between students identified as gifted and students who had very high achievement (Pearson’s correlation of 0.18). White, male students whose parents had high occupation statuses had the highest probability of being identified as gifted. Female students were more likely to be high achievers. Compared to White students, it was only East Asian students who were more likely to be identified as gifted; yet South, Southeast and East Asian students were more likely to be very high achievers. Parental occupation was strongly related to both giftedness and very high achievement. Results point to the socially constructed nature of giftedness and challenge its usage in defining and organizing students in schools.

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Woodgate, G., and M. Redclift. "From a ‘Sociology of Nature’ to Environmental Sociology: Beyond Social Construction." Environmental Values 7, no. 1 (February 1, 1998): 3–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.3197/096327198129341447.

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Withers, Jeremy. "The Social Construction of Nature and Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers." Journal of Popular Culture 45, no. 3 (May 30, 2012): 649–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5931.2012.00949.x.

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Jin, Junkai. "Triple Social Nutrition Construction." Discourse 6, no. 1 (March 5, 2020): 83–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.32603/2412-8562-2020-6-1-83-95.

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Introduction. The purpose of the paper is analysis of the humanity perception of material objects that are used as food, from the point of view of sociology, and analysis of material relations of entry-level (people and material objects recognized as the food), in which the social construction and impact of social engineering to limit the actions of people in public life. The novelty of the author’s approach is to allocate reverse the effects of nutrition on human behavior as a factor of social process.Methodology and sources. In this paper, for the analysis of social practices of nutrition as a social process used to conceptual design of “social construction” from the point of view of the sociology of things the sociology of knowledge and sociology of nutrition. The analysis of the authors’ works that address issues of social construction (Durkheim, Latour, Berger, Luckmann, Schütz, etc.).Results and discussion. According to the study author proposes a classification, according to which the social construction of power is divided into three types (levels). Nominative type is elementary awareness of the substances. Measurement type is further systematization of knowledge about food and the actions relating thereto (the distinction between substances on the basis of edibility, the establishment of various foundations products or their social attributes, defining the main ways of making food). Institutional type is determining in what form to carry out actions with the products and everything associated with them (the emergence of order meals and nutrition, the overcoming of primitive naturalism in power).The hypothesis is expressed and investigated that each level of the design is conditioned by the social and structural environment interaction of the actors.Conclusion. It is stated that in the modern system of nominative power, and measuring the types of institutional design are in a state of complex interdependence, since over time a system of knowledge, constructed by the forerunners, turned into a “cash knowledge” with the result that subsequent generations gradually ceased to distinguish between the complexity of multilevel social constructions of reality.Formulated thesis is that the analysis of the social construction of reality should help to better understand the social nature of food, in particular, to answer the question: how do food products are social constructions, as they are created by our consciousness under the influence of the existing “cash” system of knowledge as constructed, their properties (their tastes), which, as it turns out, are not so much biological, but also socio-cultural properties.

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Kopnina, Helen. "Contesting ‘Environment’ Through the Lens of Sustainability: Examining Implications for Environmental Education (EE) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)." Culture Unbound 6, no. 5 (October 1, 2014): 931–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.146931.

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This article reflects on implications of presenting nature as a social construction, and of commodification of nature. The social construction of nature tends to limit significance of nature to human perception of it. Commodification presents nature in strict instrumental terms as ‘natural resources’, ‘natural capital’ or ‘ecosystem services’. Both construction and commodification exhibit anthropocentric bias in denying intrinsic value of non-human species. This article will highlight the importance of a deep ecology perspective, by elaborating upon the ethical context in which construction and commodification of nature occur. Finally, this article will discuss the implications of this ethical context in relation to environmental education (EE) and education for sustainable development (ESD).

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Sveinsdóttir, Ásta Kristjana. "The Social Construction of Human Kinds." Hypatia 28, no. 4 (2013): 716–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2012.01317.x.

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Social construction theorists face a certain challenge to the effect that they confuse the epistemic and the metaphysical: surely our conceptions of something are influenced by social practices, but that doesn't show that the nature of the thing in question is so influenced. In this paper I take up this challenge and offer a general framework to support the claim that a human kind is socially constructed, when this is understood as a metaphysical claim and as a part of a social constructionist debunking project. I give reasons for thinking that a conferralist framework is better equipped to capture the social constructionist intuition than rival accounts of social properties, such as a constitution account and a response‐dependence account, and that this framework helps to diagnose what is at stake in the debate between the social constructionists and their opponents. The conferralist framework offered here should be welcomed by social constructionists looking for firm foundations for their claims, and for anyone else interested in the debate over the social construction of human kinds.

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Demeritt, David. "What is the ‘social construction of nature’? A typology and sympathetic critique." Progress in Human Geography 26, no. 6 (December 2002): 767–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/0309132502ph402oa.

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Proctor, James D. "The Social Construction of Nature: Relativist Accusations, Pragmatist and Critical Realist Responses." Annals of the Association of American Geographers 88, no. 3 (September 1998): 352–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/0004-5608.00105.

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Finlayson, Chris. "Fishy Business: Salmon, Biology, and the Social Construction of Nature. Rik Scarce." Isis 91, no. 4 (December 2000): 835. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/385027.

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Marsden, Terry, Gavin Bridge, and Phil McManus. "Beyond the social construction of nature: rethinking political economies of the environment." Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning 4, no. 2 (June 2002): 103–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jepp.108.

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Brennan, Toni. "Sex – arguing against biology’s alleged neutrality (or … The social construction of ‘nature’)." Psych-Talk 1, no. 55 (December 2006): 65–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.53841/bpstalk.2006.1.55.65.

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Magioglou, Thalia, and Sharon Coen. "The Construction of a Hegemonic Social Representation." European Psychologist 26, no. 3 (July 2021): 230–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000442.

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Abstract. The present paper discusses how climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic can be read as two facets of a Hegemonic Social Representation (HSR) under construction, the representation of survival, reshaping other hegemonic, socially shared representations in the Western culture such as Science, Politics/Democracy, and Nature, on an unprecedented scale. A HSR is proposed in this paper as a useful tool to conceptualize major changes in social thinking, at the interface of individual and collective dynamics. A HSR is defined as the crystallization of a meaning-complex on what is valuable and vital for a community, generating competing for social identities, practices, and social policies. The paper revisits the concept initiated by Moscovici and focuses on the role of competing groups, generating opposing perspectives. We argue that at this crucial point, close attention to the way in which meaning is negotiated across a series of key elements of the HSR of survival will help better informing communication and action concerning climate change.

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Lynch, Thomas. "Social construction and social critique: Haslanger, race, and the study of religion." Critical Research on Religion 5, no. 3 (September 27, 2017): 284–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050303217732133.

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Recent critiques of the category religion discuss the category as socially constructed, but the nature of this social construction remains underdeveloped. The work of Sally Haslanger can supplement existing discussions of “religion” while also offering a new perspective on the connection between social construction and social critique. Her analysis of race provides resources for developing a philosophical account of the social construction of religion and can help scholars of religion conceptualize racialized religious identities. I offer an example of this approach by using Haslanger’s work on race to consider historical and contemporary intersections of race and Muslim identity. I conclude that the ongoing ideological work of “religion” means that the concept remains an analytically useful term, but that scholars should aim at the gradual abolition of “religion.”

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Gergely, György, and Gergely Csibra. "The social construction of the cultural mind." Interaction Studies 6, no. 3 (November 1, 2005): 463–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/is.6.3.10ger.

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How does cultural knowledge shape the development of human minds and, conversely, what kind of species-specific social-cognitive mechanisms have evolved to support the intergenerational reproduction of cultural knowledge? We critically examine current theories proposing a human-specific drive to identify with and imitate conspecifics as the evolutionary mechanism underlying cultural learning. We summarize new data demonstrating the selective interpretive nature of imitative learning in 14-month-olds and argue that the predictive scope of existing imitative learning models is either too broad or too narrow to account for these findings. We outline our alternative theory of a human-specific adaptation for ‘pedagogy’, a communicative system of mutual design specialized for the fast and efficient transfer of new and relevant cultural knowledge from knowledgeable to ignorant conspecifics. We show the central role that innately specified ostensive-communicative triggering cues and learner-directed manner of knowledge manifestations play in constraining and guiding selective imitation of relevant cultural knowledge that is both new and cognitively opaque to the naive learner.

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Ibrahim, Nini, and Fauzi Rahman. "Construction of Hoax Circulated in Social Media." Journal of Social Sciences Research, no. 61 (January 29, 2020): 85–996. http://dx.doi.org/10.32861/jssr.61.85.96.

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This study aims at explore the construction of hoax circulation discourse that causes anxiety and emotions for individuals and community groups. This study was a qualitative analysis method that produced description data in the form of words, sentences, and ideas about nature, circumstances, symptoms, and motivations that arose from certain objects. Data sources for this research were news circulated online: (1) Artificial eggs from China, (2) A Mysterious lecturer in Yogyakarta, and (3) ‘Jengkol’ (Archidendron pauciflorum) is as an anticancer medicine. The study of hoax discourse construction is important to be conducted so that people do not easily believe in news related to sources and the validity that cannot be accounted for. This research found out that hoax created by: 1) using sensational and provocative titles, 2) using visual elements as an attraction, 3) using unpopular scientific diction, 4) sometimes threatening, 5) quoting invalid/credible sources, 6) not only sourced from blogs, but from official sites, but circulated in the readers’ column, 7) following the latest issues in the community.

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Čapek, Stella M. "Foregrounding Nature: An Invitation to think about Shifting Nature–City Boundaries." City & Community 9, no. 2 (June 2010): 208–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6040.2010.01327.x.

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Although nature in the form of “environment” has sometimes been part of sociological discussions of the city, it is typically treated as background, as a social construction, or as a metaphor for social processes. Less familiar is a view of nature as an active participant in a relationship of codetermination, an “actor” that constructs outcomes along with human beings in the communities that they inhabit. in this essay, I explore this more agentic reading of nature, bringing together insights from environmental and urban/community sociology. I explore four areas in which taken–for–granted boundaries between nature and city are shifting: ecological restoration projects, human–animal interactions, “postnatural” environments of toxic pollution, and simulated/artificial environments that substitute for nature. I suggest that urban sociology would benefit from a socioecological approach that enriches our understanding of nature and city and that allows us to participate more fully in discussions of sustainability.

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Edward, Terence Rajivan. "Does Marilyn Strathern Argue that the Concept of Nature Is a Social Construction?" Symposion 3, no. 4 (2016): 437–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/symposion20163434.

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Bird, Elizabeth Ann R. "The Social Construction of Nature: Theoretical Approaches to the History of Environmental Problems." Environmental Review: ER 11, no. 4 (1987): 255. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3984134.

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Creech, Brian. "Fake news and the discursive construction of technology companies’ social power." Media, Culture & Society 42, no. 6 (February 7, 2020): 952–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0163443719899801.

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In the research and commentary around ‘fake news’, there has been growing attention to the way the phrase evidences a growing field of technology industry critique, operating as a shorthand for understanding the nature of social media companies’ power over the public sphere. This article interrogates elite and popular discourses surrounding ‘fake news’, using the tools of critical discourse analysis to show how public commentary constitutes a discursive field that renders tech industry power intelligible by first defining the issue of fake news as a sociotechnical problem, then debating the infrastructural nature of platform companies’ social power. This article concludes that, as commentary moves beyond a focus on fake news and critiques of technology industries grow more complex, strains of elite discourse reveal productive constraints on tech power, articulating the conditions under which limits on that power are understood as legitimate.

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Cui, Qingming, and Honggang Xu. "Monkey and the mandate of heaven: rethinking the social construction of nature in ecotourism." Tourism Critiques: Practice and Theory 1, no. 1 (June 6, 2020): 21–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/trc-03-2020-0005.

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Purpose Scientific knowledge is usually regarded as the basis for the management of natural environment and wildlife in ecotourism. However, recently, social construction approaches challenge the domination of natural science. This study aims to examine the effectiveness of the social construction paradigm in ecotourism management, through conducting a content analysis of social media comments on an accident caused by a monkey in a Chinese ecotourism area. The results show that people commented on the accident from five aspects. First, the public expressed their compassion and mourning for the deceased. Second, people thought that the death was casual and absurd, yet life is full of uncertainty and people should cherish the present. Third, people commented much on the deceased tourist’s company, which is a famous sugar brand well entrenched in many Chinese people’s childhood memories. Fourth, people constructed the monkey as Monkey King, Golden Monkey (another famous sugar brand in China) and as a criminal. Fifth, people also gave their opinions about possible causes of the accident, namely, it was caused by “the mandate of heaven,” company competition, conspiracies or poor management. This study only seriously considers the comments about the mandate of heaven. This explanation is consistent with the Chinese traditional construction of nature as “heaven,” which is believed to dominate the natural and human worlds. Most people, including the managers, accepted the accident and did not explore further about the reasons for the accident. In this case, such a social construction of nature does not aid effective ecotourism management.

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Rothenberg, Paula. "The Construction, Deconstruction, and Reconstruction of Difference." Hypatia 5, no. 1 (1990): 42–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1990.tb00389.x.

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The construction of difference is central to racism, sexism and other forms of oppression. This paper examines the similar and dissimilar ways in which race and gender have been constructed in the United States and analyzes the consequences of these differences in construction for the development of social policy and the growth and nature of movements for social change.

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Baptist, Martin J., P. Dankers, J. Cleveringa, L. Sittoni, P. W. J. M. Willemsen, M. E. B. van Puijenbroek, B. M. L. de Vries, et al. "Salt marsh construction as a nature-based solution in an estuarine social-ecological system." Nature-Based Solutions 1 (December 2021): 100005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nbsj.2021.100005.

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Coulter, Kendra. "Herds and Hierarchies: Class, Nature, and the Social Construction of Horses in Equestrian Culture." Society & Animals 22, no. 2 (February 18, 2014): 135–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685306-12341253.

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Abstract This study centers on equestrian show culture in Ontario, Canada, and examines how horses are entangled symbolically and materially in socially constructed hierarchies of value. After examining horse-show social relations and practices, the paper traces the connections among equestrian culture, class, and the social constructions of horses. Equestrian relations expose multiple hierarchical intersections of nature and culture within which both human-horse relations and horses are affected by class structures and identities. In equestrian culture, class affects relations within and across species, and how horses are conceptualized and used, as symbols and as living animal bodies.

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Manderson, Desmond. "Metamorphoses: Clashing Symbols in the Social Construction of Drugs." Journal of Drug Issues 25, no. 4 (October 1995): 799–816. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002204269502500410.

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In order to understand the nature and intensity of the debate over the reform of “drug” legislation, it is necessary to appreciate the aesthetic forces which influence attitudes to this question, and the symbolic meaning which is attached to the imagery of drugs. The “war on drugs” is a war about emotional imagery and contested symbols, and in particular about the idea of the boundary—a matter crucial to the metaphysics and social organization of Western society. At the same time, it will be argued, it is the failure to recognize that we are dealing with the symbolic realm which bedevils both drug users and legislative policy. The reification of symbols causes and perpetuates the very problems that are intended to be solved. In their fetishization of the objects of drug use, the law and the addict are far more alike than one might think.

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Weyand, Larkin, Brent Goff, and George Newell. "The Social Construction of Warranting Evidence in Two Classrooms." Journal of Literacy Research 50, no. 1 (February 19, 2018): 97–122. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1086296x17751173.

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This study examines how instructional conversations revealed the ways two teachers’ argumentative epistemologies (ideational and social process) shaped literacy events focused on the warranting of evidence. A microethnographic study of the literacy events within each teacher’s respective instructional unit revealed that each teacher’s epistemology shaped how students were asked to consider differing sources, relevancy, and sufficiency for warranting evidence within the context of writing extended argumentative essays. Events within an ideational epistemology required students to generate warrants as ideas to be applied to arguments in on-demand writing situations. Within a social process epistemology, students constructed warrants as a social practice appropriate for a specific rhetorical context. Each teacher supported his or her students in developing differing understandings of the nature of warranting. These findings highlight the importance of analyzing the teaching and learning of argumentative writing not only as written products of instruction but as a socialization into argumentative writing practices.

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Xu, Rong. "Exploration and Practice of Vocational College Students' Social Practice System Based on "Three Characteristics"." International Journal of Education and Humanities 4, no. 1 (August 17, 2022): 43–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.54097/ijeh.v4i1.1315.

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This paper expounded the important significance of the construction of vocational college social practice system to improve the employment quality of higher vocational graduates. After analyzing the problems existing in vocational college students' social practice, the "three characteristics" of vocational college social practice system, such as educative nature, professionalism, hierarchical characteristics etc, were explored. The measures to strengthen the construction of social practice system were also presented.

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Mei, Xiaohan. "Beyond Nature and Subjectivity——The Issues of Space in Nathaniel Hawthorne' s The Scarlet Letter." International Journal of Social Science Studies 7, no. 4 (June 24, 2019): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/ijsss.v7i4.4337.

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In Nathaniel Hawthorne' s literary creation, the usages of space are usually highlighted by Hawthorne' s arrangement of the settings, scenes and social background. In The Scarlet Letter, according to the spatial turn in 20th spatial theories—especially the spatial theory of Lefebvre, Nathaniel Hawthorne constructed three spaces in this romance novel: the material space, spiritual space and social space. These three kinds of space are not simply juxtaposed, but are intervening, intermingling, superimposing each other, and sometimes even contradicting each other. It is through the construction of space that Hawthorne combines serious moral content with excellent artistic expressions, giving The Scarlet Letter its powerful vitality and enduring charm. It is also through the construction of space that the theme and meaning of the novel about the human spiritual ecological crisis is better manifested, and shows Hawthorne's contemplation and transcendence of the real world. In the process of interpreting the space construction of The Scarlet Letter, readers can appreciate the narrative techniques and artistic effects of the text, and then examine the social reality that the novel should express.

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Smith, Robert. "The Diva storyline: an alternative social construction of female entrepreneurship." International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship 1, no. 2 (June 26, 2009): 148–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17566260910969698.

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PurposeMany “Divas” despite possessing destructive character traits ironically become successful entrepreneurs thus illustrating an alternative “storied” social construction of entrepreneurship. This influences how female entrepreneurs are perceived in the popular press and can be manipulated as an alternative entrepreneurial reality. The purpose of this paper is to build upon research into entrepreneurial identity introducing the “Diva” concept.Design/methodology/approachThe qualitative methodological approach involves an analysis of biographies of famous Diva's to identify common themes; and an internet trawl to identify supplementary micro‐biographies and newspaper articles on “Divas”. This tripartite approach allows rich data to be collected permitting a comparative analysis.FindingsThis empirical paper presents the socially constructed nature of entrepreneurial narrative and the “Diva storyline” demonstrating the influence of journalistic licence upon how successful women are portrayed. The paper adds incremental credence to power of male‐dominated journalistic practices to vilify enterprising behaviour to sell newspapers.Research limitations/implicationsAn obvious limitation to the work is that the sample of articles and biographies selected were chosen via search parameters which mention the word “Diva”. Nevertheless, there is scope for further “more detailed” research into the phenomenon to flesh out the model built in this preliminary paper.Practical implicationsAn important implication for scholars and journalists is the need to reconsider how we tell and decode entrepreneur stories. As researchers, we need to recognise that there are other avenues for women to become entrepreneurs than to become businesswomen and that it is alright for women to reject the “entrepreneur” label.Originality/valueThis paper informs our understanding of the socially constructed nature of how we tell, understand and appreciate entrepreneur stories. It thus makes a unique contribution by illustrating that the storylines which constitute the “Diva cycle” are constructed from the same storylines that we associate with entrepreneur stories but narrated in a different order. It provides another heuristic device for understanding the social construction of gendered entrepreneurial identities making it of interest to feminist scholars of entrepreneurship and to social constructionists alike.

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TECHIO, ELZA MARIA, JARDEL PEREIRA GONÇALVES, and POLIANA NERES COSTA. "SOCIAL REPRESENTATION OF SUSTAINABILITY IN CIVIL CONSTRUCTION AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS." Ambiente & Sociedade 19, no. 2 (June 2016): 187–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1809-4422asoc130991v1922016.

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Abstract Environment issues and their relationship with man have encouraged discussions and actions to prevent negative effects on the environment. To have effective programs that encourage more sustainable actions in Construction, it is necessary to know what people think and know about sustainability, the meanings and socially shared ideas. This research was developed within an interdisciplinary approach involving social psychology and civil engineering and aims to identify the social representations of college students of engineering and humanities on sustainability. It is a descriptive study that used an electronic questionnaire and EVOC for data analysis. The results point to a social representation of sustainability associated with the environmental dimension: environment, environmental, and nature. The other two dimensions of the triple bottom line, economic and social, appear superficially as peripheral representations.

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Lax, Michael B. "Multiple Chemical Sensitivities: The Social Construction of an Illness." International Journal of Health Services 28, no. 4 (October 1998): 725–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/757t-jgbv-m6g2-y3u2.

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Multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS) has emerged as an important and highly controversial issue in occupational health. Debate centers on whether the illness is “physical” or “psychological.” A strong corporate-backed campaign has framed the debate and has pushed MCS advocates into a strategy of “proving the physical” nature of MCS. Proponents of both positions, however, share key assumptions that impede long-term efforts to benefit MCS sufferers, including acceptance of the physical/psychological dichotomy as a paradigm for the illness, a desire to rid the debate of “politics” to allow “objective scientific” data to be amassed, and a view of MCS as unique without links to other occupational illnesses. While a grassroots movement has benefited MCS sufferers in a number of important ways, the shared assumptions have impeded development of a more complex model for the illness that is reflective of a complex reality, reproduced mainstream expert/non-expert relationships, and failed to connect with the broader occupational health and safety movement. The author outlines an alternative theory and practice to begin addressing these issues, beginning with a recognition of MCS as a problem of developing knowledge within a context of class power.

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Venselaar, Marieke, and Hans Wamelink. "The nature of qualitative construction partnering research: literature review." Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management 24, no. 6 (November 20, 2017): 1092–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ecam-04-2016-0098.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the nature of qualitative construction partnering research. Design/methodology/approach In total, 20 qualitative peer-reviewed papers about construction partnering research are reviewed. Findings The results show four methodological gaps. All identified gaps have in common that specific time and place dependent details that may have influenced understanding of studied individuals are underexposed. Research limitations/implications The main limitation of this study is that empirical-based papers are divided into either qualitative or quantitative research, but the boundary between those categories is not as black and white as it may look like in first instance. Practical implications The identified gaps are translated to recommendations for further study. This will help the reader to become more aware of the difficulties and decisions encountered by the researcher, and in that way the reader is more aware and gains more understanding of the context-related character of the study. Applying the recommendations will lead to different conclusions and recommendations to improve construction partnering in working practice. Social implications More focus on local time- and place-dependent factors of the studied individuals as well as the process of studying it, inevitably leads to encountering (and becoming more aware of) personal, subjective and unexplainable decisions and behavior. Describing and analyzing these personal, subjective and unexplainable points in the research process will improve the quality of the research. Originality/value This study contributes to the further development of academic research on this topic and increase effectiveness of partnering in the construction sector.

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Alvesson, Mats, and Dan Kärreman. "On the Social Nature of Explicating Mystery Construction in Theory Development: A Response to McKinley." Academy of Management Review 33, no. 2 (April 2008): 543–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amr.2008.31193562.

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Mele, Cristina, Roberta Sebastiani, and Daniela Corsaro. "Service innovation as a social construction: The role of boundary objects." Marketing Theory 19, no. 3 (November 2018): 259–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1470593118809794.

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This article advances a conceptualization of service innovation as socially constructed through resource integration and sensemaking. By developing this view, the current study goes beyond an outcome perspective, to include the collective nature of service innovation and the role of the social context in affecting the service innovation process. Actors enact and perform service innovation through two approaches, one that is more concerted and another that emerges in some way. Each approach is characterized by distinct resource integration processes, in which the boundary objects (artifacts, discourses, and places) play specific roles. They act as bridge-makers that connect actors, thereby fostering resource integration and shared meanings.

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Mather, Barbara A. "The Social Construction and Reframing of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder." Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry 14, no. 1 (2012): 15–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1559-4343.14.1.15.

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In this article, I integrate research in social construct theory, the medicalization of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and strengths-based theory to propose a change in the way American society negatively labels and interacts with people diagnosed with ADHD. This article presents examples of global perspectives on ADHD, the nature of stigma that occurs to those who receive a medical diagnosis of ADHD, and the need to reframe ADHD from a disease to that of a positive difference. The reader is asked to consider the implications for millions who suffer from the stigma of ADHD. Starting with children diagnosed with ADHD, I suggest that members of society begin to reframe ADHD as a social construct recognizing the strengths and positive traits because there are many. This is a call to all members of society, especially those professionals of the medical, psychological, social, and educational systems, to adopt a strengths-based model of support for those diagnosed with ADHD.

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Szuchewycz, Bohdan. "Evidentiality in ritual discourse: The social construction of religious meaning." Language in Society 23, no. 3 (June 1994): 389–410. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500018030.

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ABSTRACTThe communal creation of religious meaning is here examined in the context of an Irish Catholic Charismatic prayer meeting. Through a micro-analysis of the “spontaneous” ritual language of one such meeting, various discursive strategies are revealed which function to create for the participants an experience of divine/human communication. These include an explicit effort on the part of speakers to construct a thematically consistent and coherent ritual event out of a sequence of apparently spontaneous individual speech acts, as well as a marked use of evidentials to attribute spiritual authorship and authority to personal speech acts. In contrast to what has been suggested as the self-evident nature of ritual speech, the frequent use of evidentials is related to the relatively recent emergence of the movement, its ideology, and its emphasis on the personal narrative as the central form of religious discourse. (Ritual language, evidentials, Catholic religion, charismatic religion, religious movements, authority in discourse)

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