Caroline Livingston
06.15.2020
● This assignment is about recognizing and naming core concepts in these readings and
clarifying your own understanding of the term and how they apply.
● You are required to use one direct quote from the week’s readings, including proper MLA
style parenthetical citations (see above) to either contribute to your definition of the term
or to connect the term and the readings.
● Exceptional definitions will draw connections to multiple readings both during the
assigned week and from prior modules
● Provide at least one example of social construction we discuss in this class,
characteristics associated with identifying it as a social construction, and explain how it
applies to your example.
● Why is it important to acknowledge this example as a social construction? How does
this impact how we understand and think about the concept?
Social Construction
Sees social structure as having multiple, interlocking levels of domination that stem from
societal configurations of race, class, and gender relations
Studying the interactions between three factors in the context of social structure allows
