SOC 3116 Study Guide - Final Guide: Technological Change, Digital Native, Canadian Content
18 Dec 2016
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Our social reality is how we perceive the world around us. It is shaped by our individual cultures, experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives, making these perceptions subjective. We may talk about reality as a given, but there is no singular reality because it is always context-dependent. Our world view is formed by our family, community, society, and nation, and so, even though we see the world at a simple level, it arose from a more complex context. We were preceded in the world by a past, and we will precede a future which we cannot know, but that we perceive; we are a part of a continuing continuum. In order to describe our social reality, we must take into account the different things that are occurring in that moment. This means that there is nothing natural about our perception of our social reality because it is, in some respects, negotiated.
