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so for a myriad of reasons, much of which is social. They want to fit in with a group. One sees this particularly during adolescence when teenagers all dress very
similarly, wear the same hairstyles and so forth in order to fit in with the crowd. While this is the case, they often think they create their own unique appearance,
when much of what they do is related to the groups to which they belong. Some of the things that people do
is related to social construction propagated by the larger society and other behaviors may be attributable to social identity where individuals want to identify with a group. For example, people
have multiple piercings and tattoos so they are identified with a certain societal subculture. Little is really done to promote individuality. The point of such observations is that people
by and large do things as a part of a group and this phenomenon is observed in the context of a variety of social and psychological theories. Two of these
theories are social constructionism and social identity. Social constructionism is actually a development of an early branch of sociology, which was initiated by
Marx and Mannheim, and also called the sociology of knowledge (Abercrombie, Hill & Turner, 1988; Stark, 1958 cited in Owen, 1992). The earlier discipline had been based or Marxs premise
that ideology is inextricable to base and that it is no accident that the way in which people think is directly applicable to the economic base as it concerns mode
of production (Owen, 1992). Once, Marx wrote something to the effect that social existence actually has a role in respect
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