Franklin, Alexander (2026) How Race Is Socially Constructed. In: UNSPECIFIED. Abstract The claim that race is socially constructed establishes that the correlation of racial identity with various socioeconomic and health outcomes is due to social rather than (e.g.) biological factors. However a mainstream way of understanding the social construction of race – the view that race is essentially social – is sharply at odds with many widely held intuitions about the nature of race (Hardimon (2017),.