Social Constructs: Relying on visuals to identify and understand ourselves

It seems to me, we live in an image obsessed society where one is judged based on his or her appearance. Drawing on the works of Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Thomas Hine, Jean Kilbourne, Maria Mies, Roger Rosenblatt, and Kath Weston, I will reveal how our society has come to depend on visuals to identify and understand ourselves, making us rely on visual images to represent ourselves and to label and categorize others. We place such …

…notion of "norms" and labels that confine us to insecurity, envy, distrust, and unhappiness. But before any of this is possible we must have a revisioning of our lives and our roles in society. By deconstructing labels and by attacking the "norms" as laid out by Corporate America we can begin to see a new way of life. A healthy society in which everyone can live comfortably in and to which each can contribute to.