Stan Houston, Beyond Social Constructionism: Critical Realism and Social Work, The British Journal of Social Work, Vol. 31, No. 6 (December 2001), pp. 845-861 ...

Good social constructionist work, he insists, “is best understood as a variety of empirically grounded social scientific research,” which by “turn [ing] from putatively universal standards to the ...

But recognizing race as a social construction does not make race less “real." Marriages are social constructions, but they have serious legal, cultural, and interpersonal implications.

PHILIP GORSKI, AS CRITICAL REALISM MEETS SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM, European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie / Europäisches Archiv für Soziologie, Vol. 54, No. 3 (2013), pp. 461 ...

But recognizing race as a social construction does not make race less “real." Marriages are social constructions, but they have serious legal, cultural, and interpersonal implications.

As an aspect of the social construction of “race,” we can list how nationality, language, and religion have at times become “racialized” in various societies and timeframes.

This historical social construction is amazing for how far it reaches into the American psyche. I sit on that couch thinking of all this, of how football became an institution with a powerful ...