Social Construction of Reality.

When most people think of the word "spit" or "saliva" it is not a pretty sight. It it weird to think that in different situations are we are more accustomed to the word saliva than in others. In class, Sal asked a volunteer to spit into a spoon. Everyone could see she was nervous and embaressed to spit in a spoon in front of the whole class. Not something that is typically done in a classroom. Most found this utterly gross. But what is weird is if we were going to a major league baseball game watching the batters spit wouldn't be as gross maybe not gross at all to some. The social construction of reality is how people around us influence us to experience things in the world. Everything is created from the society we live in. When i was younger, as Sal mentioned, my mother also used to wipe everything off my brother and I face. In America, we don't find this gross because this is what a lot of mothers do and we see it in our daily lives walking down the street or passing by. In a different kind of situation though, this would automatically be considered discusting! For example, most people at least in America would agree that a manager or another employee spitting on your paper work would be seen as gross and rude, although, in a situation i just stated such as a mother taking mustard off of their child's cheek with their spit would be seen as "normal." It's weird how two situations both based on one factor, spit can be completely different and can be taken as acceptable or unacceptable.