{"id":47629,"date":"2012-07-11T11:20:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T16:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=47629"},"modified":"2013-11-08T03:47:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T08:47:22","slug":"pluto-and-the-problem-with-planets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/07\/11\/pluto-and-the-problem-with-planets\/","title":{"rendered":"Pluto and the Problem with “Planets”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Referring to the controversy over Pluto’s demotion<\/a>, in this quick video C.G.P. Grey does a fun job of explaining why the icy rock is no longer a planet. \u00a0He closes with a discussion of why properly categorizing objects in space with words like “planets” may always elude us. \u00a0It’s a great example of social construction.<\/p>\n

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Via Blame it on the Voices<\/a>. \u00a0For lots more examples, see our Pinterest pages on the social construction of everything<\/a> and the social construction of race<\/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":"

Referring to the controversy over Pluto’s demotion, in this quick video C.G.P. Grey does a fun job of explaining why the icy rock is no longer a planet. \u00a0He closes with a discussion of why properly categorizing objects in space with words like “planets” may always elude us. \u00a0It’s a great example of social construction. […]<\/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":[23384,253,290],"class_list":["post-47629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-history","tag-sciencetechnology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47629","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=47629"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58297,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47629\/revisions\/58297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}