Social Construction Theory

By Leo Gura - March 26, 2025

This is a great intro to social construction. It nicely steelmans and shows why it’s important:

Notice how right-wingers and Christians love to present strawmanned or even demonized versions of social construction. They are incapable of presenting it properly because they are too threatened by it. This doesn’t mean social construction doesn’t have limits. It has serious limits which I have covered in my Post-Modernism series. But you first need to see the power of it before you trash it.

The key question here is: What important aspect of reality does social construction theory capture truthfully? What is social construction theory seeing about reality?

A right-winger is generally incapable of answering that question in a meaningful way because they are committed to defending a constellation of social constructs which they want to hold as objective reality. Social construction theory undermines the possibility of naive notions of objective reality.

Can you see why a Christian sees social construction theory as Satanic?

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