The media's construction of the border population

The objectivity proposed by modern science with the impulse of Positivism implied that it was considered possible to apprehend the world directly, through the subject/object distinction of knowledge; in this sense, social facts were also conceived as things according to the founding idea of sociology put forward by Emile Durkheim. Nowadays, however, reality is re-conceived as a social construction mediated by language, the imaginaries of culture, beliefs, the intervention of the subject in the reality he/she seeks to know, among other transversal factors. Therefore, the "real" world is not presented to us directly in order to know it, but we apprehend it through re-presentations of it, which produce meaning through the articulation of language and our conceptual schemes.