Wk 9 Discussion, Question 1

The social constructionist perspective sees communication as a process whereby people, using the tools provided by their culture, create collective representations of reality. Whatever culture you belong to is the ultimate influence of how you shape the reality of the world around you. We use communication to “build worlds” around our sense of reality. We each use communication to see what we want to see and hear what we want to hear in the world. If we choose to hear only the negative things about a specific group of people then negativity is going to be communicated to us. Some ideas that we talk about in our culture that may not exist in other cultures is democracy. Democracy is how the United State functions and without it I think that we would have major problems. The country was founded on democracy and I don’t think the United States would have made it as far as it has in history without democracy.