But life stages are primarily social constructs, and history shows that their emergence can trigger deep changes in attitudes.

但人生阶段主要是社会建构出来的概念，历史也证明，这些概念出现后，人们的态度会发生深刻的转变。

Race and ethnicity are social constructs anyway.

无论如何， 种族和民族是社会建构。

Although race is a social construct built on a structure of assumptions and stereotypes, we cannot simply get rid of race altogether.

虽然种族是社会建构出来的概念基于假设和刻板印象，我们也不能把种族完全抹掉。

In my people's case, this social construct is an imposition.

就我的人民而言，这种社会建构是一种强加。

To that I would venture that your decision-making is also a social construct.

请容我指出，你的决策同样是一种社会建构。

Well, but the time is more real. Time consists of physics, money is just a social construct.

好吧，但时间更真。时间是物理元素，而金钱只是社会建构。

But the good thing about social constructs is they can be reconstructed to fit a time and age.

但社会建构的好处是它们可以重建以适应时代和时代。

And we discussed the social construct of gender and a little bit about how it works.

我们讨论了性别的社会结构及其运作方式。

So, you might be wondering: how can race be both a social construct and something based on biology?

所以，你可能想知道：种族如何既是一种社会建构又是基于生物学的东西？

That’s why sociologists say that gender is a social construct, something that we as a society create and enforce.

这就是为什么社会学家说性别是一种社会建构，是我们作为一个社会创造和实施的东西。

Now, those social constructs may be totally made up, but their effects on how we interact with each other are very real.

现在，这些社会结构可能完全是虚构的，但它们对我们彼此互动方式的影响是非常真实的。

For example, research by Harvard sociologist David Williams has shown that factors like race and class, both social constructs, can have profound effects on health outcomes.

例如， 哈佛社会学家大卫·威廉姆斯的研究表明，种族和阶级等社会结构因素会对健康结果产生深远影响。

It was born and perpetuated by federal policy, social constructs and business practice over time, and all of those things need to change to start to close the gap.

随着时间的推移， 它是由联邦政策、社会结构和商业实践产生和延续的，所有这些都需要改变才能开始缩小差距。

In all these discussions about gender, I think it's important to keep in mind that the prevailing notions of man and woman as static genders anchored strictly on biological sex are social constructs.

在所有这些关于性别的讨论中，我认为重要的是要记住， 将男人和女人作为严格基于生理性别的静态性别的流行观念是社会建构的。

And in this moment of loud stillness, one of the women, still using her frat bro voice though fully out of character, said, nearly in a whisper, (In frat bro voice) " Gender is a social construct."

在这寂静的时刻， 其中一个女人，尽管完全不合时宜， 仍然用她兄弟会的声音说， 几乎是耳语， （用兄弟会的声音）“性别是一种社会建构。

(Laughter) I'll admit: I laughed along with my students that morning, partially at the comedic timing that my student had in her delivery but also at the fact that society has turned gender performativity into gender as social construct.

” （笑声） 我承认：那天早上我和我的学生一起笑了，部分是因为我的学生在分娩时的喜剧时机， 但也因为社会已经将性别表演性转变为性别作为社会建构。

And this not only goes for the social construct