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    Each of us is socially constructed to a significant extent. — Carmelics
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    Each of us is socially constructed to a significant extent.

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    • 1.We are (to a significant extent) the individuals we are today as a result of what has been attributed and self-attributed to us.
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    • 2.Being classified in certain ways from birth (e.g., as able-bodied females) profoundly affects the paths available to us and the sort of persons we become.
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    • 1.Existentialist accounts (Sartre, de Beauvoir) hold that radical freedom means individuals perpetually transcend the facticity of their social situation through authentic self-creation.
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    • 2.If social categories shape but do not determine the self, then 'significant' construction overstates social causation by conflating influence with constitution.
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    • 3.The supporting arguments conflate the paths available to a person with the person themselves, committing a genetic fallacy about identity formation.
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    • 1.Behavioral genetics research (Turkheimer's Three Laws) demonstrates that a substantial portion of personality variance is heritable, not socially determined.
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    • 2.If core psychological traits like conscientiousness and temperament are primarily heritable, social classification cannot be the primary architect of who we are.
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    Admittedly, the idea here is quite vague (e.g., how much is “a significant extent”?). However, social construction in this sense is ubiquitous. Each of us is socially constructed in this sense because we are (to a significant extent) the individuals we are today as a result of what has been attributed and self-attributed to us. For example, being classified as able-bodied females from birth has profoundly affected the paths available to us in life and the sort of persons we have become.
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