Thursday, February 12, 2009
week 4: Question 1
Social Constructivism emphasizes the importance of culture and context in understanding what occurs in society and constructing knowledge based on this understanding. I guess you can call this "building worlds." But there are many different worlds due to different cultures and sub-cultures. With different ethnic cultures, it is obvious that the two worlds are different. But even within the same culture understanding can differ. For instance, a man and a woman. The two have been together for a few years and everything is going well. Well at least to the man it is. He loves her, takes care of her, provides for her. But to the woman, he doesn't provide emotional support, doesn't compliment her enough, doesn't express his love verbally, which she needs. It isn't that he doesn't love her, he just expresses it in a totally different way. You can see how they are from different "worlds."
Haivianna...
ReplyDeleteI can understand what you’re saying in your blog this week. I can see how men and women live in different worlds. It is true when they say men are from mar and women are from Venus. Women look at things in more detail and have like to analyze all situations and men don’t. Men are more I guess you can say oblivious and that can get misunderstood as being mean or insensitive to the woman. But men can say that women over analyze and get too sensitive. In the end cultures and the people in them build worlds and communication is passed down from generation to generation to have the built worlds grow and expand.
gOod pOst
Using your example some remediation is necessary if the woman is to remain in that relationship. According to the suggestions given to improve one's communication, the man needs to take responsibility for and think more deeply about what he is saying and the way he is saying those things. This will increase the liklihood of both of them being on the same page communication wise. In addition, dude must 'get a clue' that this modern woman would like for him to follow some basic modern cultural rules and norms in regards to the dating game. He needs to upgrade his way of communicating or risk losing this woman.
ReplyDeleteHello haivanna! What other cultures (besides ethnic or gender that you have mentioned here) or even subcultures do you notice a socially constructed reality?
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