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Wearing socks is a social construct (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I get that it's a joke, but wearing socks is not a social construct-- it's a social convention, but its utility is driven primarily by non-social factors. A social construct is an idea created and maintained by society specifically for its social function, which neither socks nor the act or wearing them nor the idea that wearing socks is good, are.