Are we social constructions?

You can’t just live in your private reality. What this suggests is that, like the body, the social matters primarily for how it helps frame and shape our psychological sense of self. However, some claim that this way of putting it gets things precisely the wrong way round. It is rather the case that the psychological, the inner, matters primarily for how it helps frame and shapes our social sense of self. It is our place in the world that defines who we are. The relations that constitute our identity are the relations we have with others, not those that hold between thoughts and memories in our minds. So is it true that we are social constructions?

Saved 23 April 2015

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