Social Constructionism

Social Constructionism is a theory in sociology and communication that evaluates the growth of many understanding of the world that form the essence for shared presumptions about reality. It asks people to develop their own understanding of how the world works and people tend to be judgmental of the idea. There are many people in the world whom seem to be naïve and certain nonsense is very appealing to them. It is very important that people are cautious of what their beliefs and be doubtful of how the world may seem to appear to them. Also, forming ones own opinion but not assume their observation of the world is always just. In 1963 Bernard Cohen developed the social constructionism theory or in his words “developing sociological

The knowledge that individuals are subject matter to greatly effect their view of the world. Individuals are not always able to personalize the experience events, so the people must rely on other methods to issue the experience the people are impotent to obtain directly. For instance there has been many debates in the media with gay marriage on trying to get the world to be cynical or to agree with it. Social constructionism has been adopted in this area to challenge oppressive or to discriminate against same-sex marriage. The inordinate conclusion is that the media generally maneuvers in ways that encourages indifference, skepticism, rather than active liberty and contribution. Furthermore, all the tendencies seem to be going in the wrong direction and more messages that are saying even

When celebrities started dumping ice water on their heads, everyone started to do it just because the challenge became the “thing to do.” This cause was made to raise money for the disease but people were not giving money to the cause the people were doing it to gain attention. This challenge was posted on all media websites including, facebook, twitter, instagram, and many other popular websites. The social learning theory applies to this cause because it encompasses attention, motivation and memory. This cause has raised millions of dollars for people with this horrible disease. People were learning by observing others behaviors, and