Social Construction of Reality

During this week in sociology, we learned about social construction of reality. Or meaning what society and our people create due to our feelings and experiences. We read a very intriguing story called The survivors of F-227 by James Henslin. In our society that we've created, normally we would think eating human flesh and our people would be absolutely disgusting and unacceptable. But, when it comes to a life or death situation like in F-227, they created their own kind of society. Due to how they were stranded on the mountain for a very long time, they needed to eat; the only way they could do this was by eating bodies. At first they were disgusted, but then as time went on, they thought it was acceptable to eat this solely on the fact that that was the only way they could survive. I can totally relate to this society we create. One of my friends started working out this summer like crazy and eating extremely healthy. We are very close and hang out almost every day that naturally I picked up these habits. I started working out, running, biking, etc. more than I ever have before. Its interesting how the people in our society who were are closest to can affect how we live and our lifestyles.