Social Construction of reality

The reality in the neighborhood is socially constructed by the racist people, Sonnys crew, and the workers. The unwritten rules in the neighborhood are that don't mess with Sonny or you will most likely end up hurt, African Americans are not human and shouldn't be coming threw even if they are just passing threw because they will move here. Also there is like a bridge that splits up the white from the black neighborhood. The workers are hard working and try to avoid Sonny, they make their own livings without the bad money. I think this construction came about when Sonny showed them all what he is able to do. What he can get away with. The racism came about because at that time period people were very racist. They believed that the Italians were better and that African Americans were bad.I could see the racist attitudes as a social construction because like Collogero friend saying his father said the African Americans were bad, he was very racist. Then the kids being racist leads to generation after generation of being racist. The fact that Collogero couldn't stick up to his friends about all the things his friends did to the African Americans is really sad and kid of annoying.