Social Construction of Reality: Fact of Life

Pohela Boishakh Celebration: Practicing over the year in Bengali Culture

Actually it bit tough to define the term ‘society’ on the other hand it much easier for some reasons. ‘Air’ it’s everywhere in our surroundings, without air any live is possible. Society is similar fact without this human life is impossible; in fact wild life is also under society control.

The term society is all about a person which consist culture, customs, norms, language and all about of a particular person’s day to day life. Social construction is a concept or practice which may appear to be natural and obvious to those who accept it, but in reality is an invention of a particular culture or society. This construction is a continuous process, which started from age to age of a family. A combination of families practice together once upon time creates a new custom.

How brain stores and retrieves information to examine the ways in which learners make meaning from experience. Rather than transmission of knowledge, learning is an internal process of interpretation; learners do not transfer knowledge from external world into their memories, rather they create interpretations of the world based upon their past experiences and their interactions in the world. Say, how a baby grows up in the society and how a baby adopts with a social life it’s totally depend on social life. No one suggest him to learn social language. But what mother says, he/she loves to copy it or want to practice with that. That’s why it called mother tongue. What sort of dress code a baby will follow no one bound him to do that might be mother in the childhood try to impose her on choice. But later on he get a chance to bounce back in his on choice, social custom allow him just to use their social dress. That’s why see variation of using dress from nation to nation. The constructivists approaches that have grown out of these, argue that learning should be durable, transferable and self regulated. In another way, it could be explain in this way, everyone in this earth himself is a complete institution. what he/she achieve from society and educational institution, family even in the surroundings he loves to gather the message in his own way and with own explanation. Thus ultimately a new idea develops from his own way. Ultimately we see various sorts of people having different approaches. Which build a construction in the society.

Review of the film ‘Wag The Dog’: Black face of Media

[Wag the Dog: Media In a Question]

Mass media is well known as watch dog of democracy, it’s one of the fourth states of any democratic country. Fruitful democracy many ways depend on active participation of media people. As mass people have only way to communicate with top level people of a country is ‘media’, whatever the issue is people want to put their faith on media message. But some cases holy faith of public goes down for unethical activities of media. Wag the Dog movie is one of the best examples of manipulation of the mass media and public opinion, with a comedic way.

If we want to find out the background of the movie Wag the Dog directed by Barry Levinson, we will find movie was produced in a time when, former president Bill Clinton was impeached by sex scandal during the year 1997. Although the movie also makes reference to the Persian Gulf War as an example of war used as an electoral topic. Through the movie we see, that American president was involved with sex scandal allegation by a girl, as the election time is just before the opponent candidates taking this opportunity. Opponent political parties started negative campaign of the existing president. During that time President was visiting China. As mass people are not getting any speech from president concerning this issue, one of the renowned producers of Hollywood took the opportunity to work in fever of president. Producer Dustin Hoffman contrasts a fake war against Albania. As media and mass people had full of concentration about sex scandal, it became more important issue for public. Once upon a time people forgot the negative face of president as usual they started thinking how logical this war is against Albania.

If we go through with whole movie, we will find that how much interpretations differ as to the meaning of this metaphor. Most of the time mass people fail to gather exact message from media. If we take the example of ‘Gulf War’ and contribution of media, especially English and American Media, the journalist covering that war had to take shelter from American or British Soldiers. As accommodation and all sorts of facilities are provided from them it’s not possible to be unbiased for a journalist. Ultimately mass people are not getting right information from Iraq. If we relate this experience with this movie we will find similarity.