Social constructionism: Difference between revisions

'''Social constructionists''' believe that human characteristics like gender, race, class, and disability are mostly determined by socialization.  They take a hard-line nurture stance in the nurture vs. nature argument of human behaviour.  They may claim that very few biological drives cannot 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.