Social Construction of Reality

This week in class we learned about the social construction of reality. We did a demo in class by having someone put their saliva on a spoon. Most if not all of us thought it was gross because we have that reality that once saliva leaves our body it is nasty but if you we're in another setting like a baseball game spitting there is not frowned upon. We also watched an episode of Freaks and Geeks and looking at different groups and their functions. In the episode if you look at one person and follow them throughout the episode you can see how they go from group to group. For example, Lindsay, one of the main characters, goes from hanging out with the burnouts or the freaks, then goes with the geeks, then her family, and in large the school. In the pilot episode we see Lindsay really trying to figure out who she is and where she belongs. We get a glimpse that she is a really smart person because they make references to her being a math lets and getting A's in her classes. We see with all these different examples of how our own experiences are shaping certain decision we do and the way we look at things. We have been taught that if you dress a certain way you belong to this group and that everyone in that group acts a certain way or are all the same. But we need to look throughout our whole day with all the different people we interact with and see how they shape us.