This week in sociology we learned about the social construction of reality. This is how our views and actions are all shaped by the society that we live in. To me this term reminds of "social norms" the we talked briefly about at the beginning of the semester. An action such as the teacher staring a class by just being silent may just be considers normal in some other culture yet for us it was uncomfortable and awkward just so sit there in silence.
 I had this sort of experience a few years ago when I went to china. One of the few things I clearly remember is that they had a rating system for every bathroom.  It was just a simple 5 star system and there were signs posted outside of every door that showed the star rating of the bathroom. Ourtour guide   told the group I was in that most typical public restrooms were 2-3 stars. He also noted that if we ever saw I saw a 1 star bathroom that we should never go into it.  Seeing something like this was really weird to me. Rating a bathroom was something I had never seen before and it was weird for me to see a rating out side of every bathroom. Thinking about it it would also be weird for someone from china not to see a rating out side of a bathroom here since that is something they are so used to seeing. Our own social construction is reality is something we can't really just see without a change In our cultural setting. Places like foreign countries are the best since it is so different and gives us the best feedback for what our own social norms are.