Question

chapter 2: culture & construction
page(s) 42-43
2.1. explain the concept of a social construct.
fill in the blanks to complete the passage about social constructs.
the constellation of social constructs that are connected and opposed to one another in overlapping networks of meaning is known as blank. this system of meaning connects categories such as fruits, vegetables, and carbohydrates to blank such as healthy and unhealthy foods. these binaries involve additional ideas about health, which then prompt food production companies to produce blank such as “non - gmo” or “organic” in arbitrary ways.
options: signifiers, binaries, associations, sequences, culture, the symbolic structure

Explanation:

To solve this fill - in - the - blank problem about social constructs, we analyze each blank based on the context and the provided options:

First Blank

The description is about a system of connected and opposed social constructs in overlapping meaning networks. The term "the symbolic structure" fits this description as it refers to the overall system of how these social constructs relate in terms of meaning. So the first blank should be filled with "the symbolic structure".

Second Blank

We see a connection between categories (fruits, vegetables, etc.) and a type of relationship like "healthy" vs "unhealthy" which are binaries (oppositional pairs). So the second blank is "binaries" as it connects the categories to these oppositional concepts.

Third Blank

Food production companies produce "signifiers" like "non - GMO" or "organic" because these are signs that carry meaning (in this case, related to health and food production). Signifiers are symbols or labels that represent something, and here these terms are signifiers for certain ideas about food.

Answer:

First blank: the symbolic structure
Second blank: binaries
Third blank: signifiers