Griffin explains that social construction is the communal creation of the real and the good, and continues to explain that persons-in-conversation co-construct their own social realities and are simultaneously shaped by the worlds they create. This information can be found on page 478 in chapter 36.
Its interesting to me that after all of the material we've covered this semester, I can still remember the theories that Griffin threads together. Its so interesting to me that we really do construct our own realities that we live in. That's why I think every person can be happy in their life as long as they focus on the positives.
~Tornn
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Although we do socially construct our realities, we don't have complete freedom in how those realities are constructed. For example, we're constrained by the physical world in creating the realities of, say, driving a car while talking on a cell phone. However, the social construction of reality is particularly applicable to online communication. Consider the class we've created in COMM 101 through the class website, listserv, wiki, and blogs.
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