Social constructionism: Difference between revisions

'''Social constructionists''' believe that human characteristics like gender, race, class, and disability are mostly temporary artifacts determined by socialization (nuture argument).  They may also claim that very little biological drives can't be overridenn and that humans are often ''blank slates'', i.e. malleable. This is typically accompanied by a notion that once we accept this, we can achieve a more harmonious society, even utopia. Scientific consensus is that the blank slate of human nature is false. While it is true, that humans are very malleable and that there is in some regards huge cultural variation, there are many behaviors, emotions, tendencies and traits, that are pretty much fixed, especially the ones mentioned above.