Social Constructionist - Week 3

The social constructionist perspective basically shows that people in groups become accustom to their culture, which effects the way they see the world through their eyes.  I believe this model does represent a category of how communication is viewed.  Social constructionist perspective indicates that an individuals beliefs, attitude, and tradition of viewing reality is based upon how that individual was raised in his or her culture.  We "build worlds" through communication by taking a part of life, and allowing people to grow accustom to growing up with a specific view point.  For example, my family may "build" a world we are allowed to eat on the couch or dinner table, have our feet up comfortably, and if we can't finish our dinner plate, it is okay.  Another family on the other hand, my brother-in-laws, in which they are Jordanian, may only eat at the dinner table, having the soles of your feet being seen is offending, and not finishing up more than one plate is not allowed.  As you can see, our cultures our different, thus allowing an individual to not actually recognize their perspective on the world is not the only perspective.  This also causes a problem as well, for then stereotypes of other cultures, religions, or ethnic groups may come into place as outsiders may feel that certain individuals are (and always are) different.  Cultural norms may convey a lack of success and may imply a strength of successes as well.  If a female is brought up in her home to never work and always provide a family, she may not gain work experience or knowledge applicable that an opposing individual may contain.  If a man is brought up to work hard his entire life and go to college to create a career, the motivation of success is definitely present, and passed on down to generations.   When in reality, both women and men should be allowed to stay at home and provide for the family, or/and make a career for themselves.  The social constructive perspective model does show a slight model of how others communicate in their world based on their culture and social life, but I do believe it doesn't provide for individuality of people.  Not every "American" likes baseball, and therefore, stereotypes can be easily misused and assumed.