Social construction

Wallis, R., ed. On the margins of science the social construction of rejected knowledge. Sociological Review Monographs, no. 27. Keele Keele Univ P, 1979. 

Pharmacogenomics and the Social Construction of Identity, 251 Morris W. Foster, Ph.D. 

Among the many findings of the HGP is that all humans are 99.9% identical at the level of DNA. Consequently, any two humans on the planet are likely to vary genetically only once in every one thousand base pairs. This finding reconfirms that the species Homo sapiens is relatively young (about 100,000 years old) and that there are no subspecies. Thus there is no scientific basis for racial classifications race is a purely social construct. 

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Cohen, Peter. (1990). Drugs as a social construct Dissertation, Amsterdam, Universiteit van Amsterdam, pp. I-IV. http //www.cedro-uva.org/lib/ cohen.drugs.toc.html] Reinarman, C and Levine, H. (1989), "The crack attack. Politics and Media in America s Latest Drug Scare", in Best, J, (Ed) Images and Issues Current Perspectives on Social Problems. N.Y Reinarman, C, Waldorf, D. Murphy, S. (1988). Scapegoating and social control in the construction of a public problem Empirical and critical findings on cocaine and work. Research in Law, Deviance and Social Control, Vol 9, p 37-62,... 

P. Berger and H. Kellner, Marriage and the Social Construction of Reality, in P. Berger, ed.. Facing up to Modernity (New York Basic Books, 1977). See also P. Berger and T. Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality (Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday, 1967). 

Nevertheless, I think the distinction marks a real difference. Its defense depends on the fact that the social construction of the appetites takes place on a biological foundation of culturally independent needs. This point certainly requires careful formulation and development. Until then, a certain amount of skepticism is admittedly in order. 

Latour, B. and Woolgar, S. 1979. Laboratory Life The Social Construction of Scientific Facts. Sage, Beverly Hills. 

By comparison, erectile dsyfunction (ED) is an example of how social dissatisfaction can be transformed into medical dysfunction and then remedied by a pill. On the one hand, it is certainly true that, in some cases, ED is the consequence of organic causes, including peripheral vascular diseases, hypertension, drug-side effects, hormonal imbalance, and diabetes. The MMAS suggests, for example, that 10 per cent of American males have complete inability to achieve erection of the penis (Feldman et al. 1994). But ED is primarily a socially constructed condition based on a socially constructed male "problem." As one commentator has explained, " [T]he more anxiety a corporation can produce, the larger its market. In other words, worrying about ED may in fact cause ED" (Loe 2004). 

Rojek, C. (1997) Indexing, dragging and the social construction of tourist sights. In C. Rojek and J. Urry (eds) (1997) Touring Cultures Transformations of Travel and Theory (pp. 52-74). London Routledge. 

Saarinen, J. (1998) The social construction of tourist destinations The process of transformation of the Saariselka tourism region in Finnish Lapland. In G. Ringer (ed.) Destinations (pp. 154-173). London Routledge. 

Risk is considered as the probability of a negative event occurring and can be quantified. However, this form of risk can be understood as "danger." The perception of risk is a socially constructed phenomenon, and is more difficult to measure. Psychological risk is based on perception rather than... 

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