{"id":43650,"date":"2012-02-03T12:43:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T17:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=43650"},"modified":"2013-11-08T05:00:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T10:00:01","slug":"the-social-construction-of-the-continents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/02\/03\/the-social-construction-of-the-continents\/","title":{"rendered":"The Social Construction of the Continents"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In the 3 1\/2 minute video below,\u00a0CGP Gray<\/a>\u00a0explains the nonsense behind the word “continent.” \u00a0It’s a cultural construct, with some geological rationale, but not enough to rationalize the seven that we recognize.<\/p>\n

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Also from CGP Gray:\u00a0What the Bleep is the United Kingdom?!<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0The Economics of Royalty<\/a>.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the 3 1\/2 minute video below,\u00a0CGP Gray\u00a0explains the nonsense behind the word “continent.” \u00a0It’s a cultural construct, with some geological rationale, but not enough to rationalize the seven that we recognize. Also from CGP Gray:\u00a0What the Bleep is the United Kingdom?!\u00a0and\u00a0The Economics of Royalty. Lisa Wade, PhD is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1826,293],"class_list":["post-43650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-geographymaps","tag-social-construction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43650"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58494,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43650\/revisions\/58494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}