Part I, Section 1, “What Is a Cultural Construct?”, is a critique of Durkheim’s transcendentalist concept of “social facts,” and by this proxy also a critique of structuralism (the school of thought that includes the works of Saussure, Lévi-Strauss, and Lacan), which is based on Durkheim’s concept of “social facts.” We develop the concept of “cultural constructs” as a viable and operational alternative unit of analysis, and as the starting point of a post-structuralist analysis, that is to say, a sociological or anthropological analysis that rejects all forms of transcendentalism. We also critique Zizek and Hegel.

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