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Examples Of Social Construction In Society

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Unfortunately society is still categorizing people based on their race. As a society and as individuals we develop while growing up directions in what we think about the different races, which lead us to our own opinion what we have. They don’t realize it but behavior like that bring consequences with it. Social construction in races was created by society I recording to defend the inequality in our country. To treat a person based on their skin color differently shouldn’t be happening, but we as a society did assigned and created those different treatment/values in a person and how to interact with others. So many years after the civil right act we still have this huge inequality gap between races. Examples here are the higher incarceration

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