social construct

noun

formal

: an idea that has been created and accepted by the people in a society

Class distinctions are a social construct.

Examples of social construct in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Both Gergen and Maturana espouse the view that reality is purely a social construct. —Richard Halstead, The Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2024

Experts do not feel like biologic differences drive this inequity, especially given that race is a social construct and cannot be genetically or biologically defined. —Dr. Angela Zhang, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2024

Race is a social construct, not a biological certainty, therefore classification using a flawed premise will lead to flawed science. —De-Shaine Murray, STAT, 29 Nov. 2023

Interpreting history Modern academics argue that race is a social construct. —Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Nov. 2023

Adolescence, which society defines as the transition from childhood to adulthood, begins in biology with the onset of puberty but ends in a social construct when a person achieves independence and assumes adult roles. —Jay N. Giedd, Scientific American, 1 May 2016

Unlike most of his white contemporaries, Du Bois did not see race as an immutable characteristic but as a social construct. —Zachariah Mampilly, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022

Health practitioners are increasingly concerned that because race is a social construct, and the biological mechanisms of how race affects clinical outcomes are often unknown, including race in predictive algorithms for clinical decision-making may worsen inequities. —Anirban Basu, The Conversation, 26 May 2023

And white and Black are such a social construct, and that’s where the relief is in Europe. —Chris Willman, Variety, 23 Oct. 2022