When I began my studies in sociology, it felt like I was being inducted into a secret society. There we were – 300 undergraduate students standing in front of the auditorium, completely oblivious to the tremendous secret that was about to be revealed. They called us in and the ceremony began. At least that's how it felt.
The professors boldly stated that everything we experience and claim to know is socially constructed. In other words, any meaning that we as humans give to objects or…