GEOG 2210 Chapter : GEOG2210 Chpt 8 Summary
11 Feb 2012
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Social construction any category, condition or thing that exists or is understood to have certain characteristics because people socially agree it does. The combination of indigenous and scientific representation of that area; these ideas, images and assumptions are all socially constructed made up piece by piece elsewhere by other people. Wilderness a parcel of land, more or less unaffected by human forces; increasingly, wilderness is viewed as a social construction. Once we ask these questions we begin to scrutinize our experience of the environment and we begin to see how nature is a product of social processes, beliefs, ideologies, and history. Constructivist emphasizing the significance of concepts, ideologies and social practices to our understanding and making of (literally, constructing) the world. The nature in the forest is socially constructed in 2 ways. 1) our ideas of pristine and authentic are not just raw mental ideas that come from thin air, instead they are products of culture, media, etc. 2)
