Theory of the Social Construction of Innocence and Guilt

A legal‑sociological theory arguing that innocence and guilt are not simple facts but socially constructed categories produced through legal procedures, storytelling, evidence rules, and jury dynamics. Two people who committed identical acts may be judged innocent or guilty based on their social status, the quality of their lawyer, the narrative they can afford, or the biases of the court. The theory shows that the legal process does not simply discover guilt or innocence; it actively constructs them through rules of evidence, plea bargaining, and courtroom performance. It challenges the myth that the legal system merely mirrors reality.

Example: “The theory of the social construction of innocence and guilt explained how a wealthy defendant could walk free on a technicality while a poor defendant with the same evidence was convicted: the legal process constructed two different verdicts from the same underlying actions.”

Theory of the Social Construction of Innocence and Guilt by Dumu The Void April 19, 2026

construvtion

A term commonly used by a person or people that are either to drunk or tired to pronounce construction.

I have been up since 4:30am and will probably be late because there's construvtion on craycroft again.

construvtion by RykenAZ January 7, 2010

constructivism

Functionalism.

Late postmodernism.

Post-postmodernism. Alternatively referred to as post-structuralism.

The ontology of the word 'constructivism' indicates that not only is postmodernism not the same phenology as Marxism; but post-structuralism is post-postmodernism in contrast to postmodernism.

Postmodernism has two periods of development: "hard" led by Frege, Kant, and the German arithmeticians and soft led by the Benjamin, Adorno and the cultural capitalists of the Frankfurt school.

Constructivism or post-postmodernism is best attributed to the post-realists Foucalt, Baudrillard, and Lacan in contrast to the surrealists (postmodernists) that came before them.

"Constructivism" was coined by Jean Piaget.

constructivism by tomorrowtomorrow January 7, 2019

Conviction Constriction

When your banging a girl in a church and a pastor or other religious leader walks in and the girl becomes overcome with conviction and tightens up everywhere...

Mike: How was church bro?

Nick: Awesome man! Gave this chick some conviction constriction!
Mike: Praise the lord!

Conviction Constriction by Nickyp August 6, 2014

Excitement contractions 

When you are so excited for something that you actually have contractions. This occurrence happens with both genders and will typically cause intense butterflies in the stomach and jumping up and down.

"man, I'm so excited to go to the city, I'm getting excitement contractions"

Excitement contractions by Hue555 January 12, 2019

anal constriction 

The act of rose budding your asshole then taking the smallest rubber band you have and wrapping it around your rose budded anus until you come to anal climax. Legend says it’s the most intense orgasm a human body can experience.

Bro, she did this anal constriction shit on me and had the most mind blowing gasm.

anal constriction by D1eB1tch November 14, 2022

Scientific Constructivism

The position that scientific facts are not simply discovered waiting in nature, but are actively constructed by scientific communities through their practices, instruments, theories, and social negotiations. This doesn't mean facts are arbitrary or "made up"—it means that nature doesn't come pre-packaged into facts; we have to build the packages. A quark is real, but "quark" as a category required accelerators, detectors, mathematics, and conferences to agree on what was seen. Constructivism studies how these packages get built, whose labor builds them, and what gets left out of the final product.

"Before the microscope, 'cells' didn't exist as facts—they were constructed when lens-grinders, biologists, and specimen-stainers created the conditions to see them. Scientific Constructivism just asks us to remember that facts have factories, and the factories matter."

Scientific Constructivism by Abzugal February 23, 2026