“I am not who you think I am; I am not who I think I am; I am who I think you think I am.”
—Charles Horton Cooley, Human Nature and the Social Order

For me, this quote illustrates perfectly the real origin of what most of us think as our individual or collective knowledge, or the information stored within our minds.

Social construct theory centers on the notion that meanings are developed in coordination with others, rather than separately within each individual...