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For this task, you should write an expository essay on the following topic. Modernity has created a large range of new challenges for our society. Please find a current example of one such challenge and use one of the following key ideas to describe and explore the issues that contribute to the challenge. · Social Construction · Hegemony · Discourse You should incorporate at least two academic sources in your essay. KEY IDEAS CHOSEN FROM ABOVE IS: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION Instructions · You will need to use one or two non-academic sources (eg. newspaper articles) to illustrate your example, but they do not substitute for a required number of FOUR relevant academic sources from the readings area on vUWS. I HAVE ATTATCHED A SEPARATE FILE WITH READINGS Requirements Your essay should be 1200 words (+/- 10 %). If your essay is less than the word count it is likely that you have omitted something and therefore your assignment is unlikely to pass. The text must be typed and double spaced. Use a legible font (eg Times New Roman). The font size should be 12 pt. Use referencing and citation following Harvard WSU (UWS) stylehttp://library.uws.edu.au/uws_library/guides/referencing-citation Your essay will need a minimum of at least four of the texts from the “further reading” area on vUWS Giddens, A., & Alexander Street Press. (1991). Modernity and self-identity self and society in the late modern age (Social theory). Cambridge: Polity Press. Unknown, 2014. “Modernity” IN Scott, J.(Ed.), A Dictionary of Sociology. : Oxford University Press. Retrieved 14 May. 2018, from http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199683581.001.0001/acref-9780199683581-e-1461. Readings about Social Construction, available from the library: Culture and Cognition : Patterns in the Social Construction of Reality by Wayne H. Brekhus https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uwsau/detail.action?docID=4030056 Elder-Vass, D., 2012. The reality of social construction, Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press. The Social Construction of Climate Change : Power, Knowledge, Norms, Discourses By Mary E. Pettenger https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uwsau/detail.action?docID=4426197 Environment and Global Modernity by Gert Spaargaren, Arthur P. J. Mol, Frederick H Buttel, Gert Spaargaren, Arthur P. J. Mol, and Frederick H. Buttel https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uwsau/detail.action?docID=1024139 Other readings: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0960777314000137 https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/what-we-mean-when-we-say-race-is-a-social-construct/275872/ http://www.fgcsic.es/lychnos/en_EN/articles/modernity_understanding_our_present_time Original Listing https://docs.google.com/document/d/14B52N1MEACeBy7b5z9LRWUG-XFbIjJqknpHjsx9EoAE/edit?usp=sharing

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EXPOSITORY ESSAY ON SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION
Table of Contents
Introduction	3
Social Construction	3
Challenges faced	3
Relationships: Trickiest Social Construct	4
Role of social construction in relationships that leads to challenges	5
Conclusion	5
References	6
Introduction
There are times when we have to rethink the reality of the situations. Many concepts in life look sceptical in a sense when we question them that where is the existence of this way of behavior or agreement coming from. Often we are instructed, told, explained a way of living or behavior which happen to have some sort of authentication based on ancient belief or public opinion. Out of everything we follow in life, most of the things are mere constructs that give rise to our opinions about anything and everything we experience (Unknown, 2014). 
Social Construction is such a phenomenon that tells us that most of the things we follow or abide with are not real but exist because we have given a nod to them as a construct or a way to look at something. Examples of such agreements are – Society, Nations, Caste system, Religion or Money; they do not exist without human agreement involved. Even the fact of being an individual seems like a construct. It follows the pathway of interaction among different individuals; a group is also a construct in that sense. 
Social Construction 
‘In communication conjecture and social knowledge the trend that scrutinizes the unanimous agreement constructed by the world that is built on common supposition about actuality is said to be a social construction’. Social construct is an idealism of facts that a group of people from same origin or may not be from same origin agree upon that may or may not be real, it is purely based on assumptions. As mentioned by Giddens and Alexander Street Press. (1991), it appears usual or evident to people as they all hold the same belief and violating those beliefs might be hurting or disappointing to them. These are notions assigned to the events or objectives, also relationships that mere are connotations given by the society. Having a well settled job, becoming a mother to an adopted kid, assigning a power to a position such as on to a Prime minister or President of the nation, stealing something is said to be as a bad habit, rebelling against certain set of laws as they does not sound to a group of people fair, all are constructs made by people under similar understandings and agreements. 
Challenges faced 
Any sport or game is tied into certain set of rules. A game of basketball can be played in any way intended, but in doing so, the person is not abiding with the rules assigned to it. Rules give a game a meaning and drive way to go about it, win and be fair, which is also a construct. Gender recognition is one social construct that is a hot topic to discuss. The society is divided into men and women under a social construct who have rules of interaction and behavior for each other and for oneself. 
Now if we talk about Lesbian, Gay,

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