People in some societies have two different perspectives regarding how they take life to be, the essentialist perspective and constructionist perspective. By definition, the Essentialist perspective is a view that some people have they think that everything comes from nature. Things are the way they are because of nature. They believe that "everything that we see and touch is merely a manifestation of a deeper essence" (Roy 8). The Constructionist perspective is the view that people who believe that “Reality is created by society” (Roy 10). In other words, society defines what something is, and puts things into categories. The difference between them regarding gender is that for the Essentialist views people would see gender as natural due
