Social Constructionism

Contrasts with essentialism, which views categories like race, gender, and sexuality as the product essential features of an individual's biology or psychology. Social constructionists, on the other hand, view such categories as the product of cultural influences. For social constructionists, language and culture mediate our perceptions, and as such, we can never have direct access to reality. Any definition of reality or a thing's essence is always a construction/interpretation.

Reference

http://mingo.info-science.uiowa.edu/~stevens/critped/terms.htm