Social construction describes the world to be a faulty perception of the actual truth of reality (Berger & Luckmann, 2002). How a person views the world in terms of one’s self and surroundings is a social construction, based on the social factors that have constructed an individual to have specific feelings and understandings of reality. A person’s social class has manipulated that person into having a specific perception of the world without choice in the matter (Jenks, 1996). Through the visualization of the world’s concrete realities come the common descriptions and interpretations individuals give to their surroundings (Miller, 1990). What is real and what is considered true in life is strongly dependant on who it is and the social class they belong to. (Pearrow, Sanchez, 2008). Factors including gender, sexuality, race, and age play a vital role in what society has been brainwashed into perceiving in the reality of the world (Berger & Luckmann, 2002). The majority of society has fallen into a state of false consciousness, being unable escape from the perception of the world that they have been manipulated into believing, resulting in the creation of a false universe differing from any real truth of reality (Berger & Luckmann, 2002). The world we know to exist is merely a social construction to which the dominating class of society has created (Jenks, 1996). There is no true knowledge of anything in existence other than the truth of what society has determined it to be. The truth of reality that we are currently familiar with is simply a concept that we have been forced into believing (Berger & Luckmann, 2002).
The continuous chain of societies in development has created the world we are currently familiar with through perception, description and communication to benefit those in social domination and power (Jenks, 1996). The power and knowledge that an individual has been manipulated into believing is simply brainwashing that individual into believing this...