Sex, gender and sexuality have been heated and controversial topics in both social science and anthropology. With the development of society, new problems and issues, in conjunction with existent ones, cause confusions in human beings ' ultimate understanding about the topics. This essay aims to explore the reasons and drivers behind two issues related to the topic of sexuality, based on a social science related perspective. The first part of the essay attempts to discuss the concept of social construction and how it got misinterpreted by people in the very beginning and whether it represents a specific direct denial of biological variation between males and females. The second part of the essay attempts to explore into the phenomenon that
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In essence, the problem between the social science and sexuality is that it generates a misunderstanding and confusion in social construction of sexuality, which is taken for granted by many that it denies the real biological characteristics of human beings. The truth is that the idea of social construction of sexuality or gender is misinterpreted from the very beginning. The social construction of sexuality or gender and realism of sexuality or gender should have never been opposed. A typical example that can be used for demonstration of the viewpoint is money. It is apparent that money is a social construction. The monetary notes are made of piece of either paper or plastic materials worth of nothing in nature, but human beings all choose to believe in the power of such notes. All human beings choose to believe in that these notes have actual value and can be used to effectively exchange something. While it can be agreed by all that money is a social construction, it doesn 't necessarily indicates that money is unreal. In fact, …show more content…
Gender roles and identity are usually considered as duality, but in some of the societies in the world now, there are supernumerary gender developed . There are now third or even fourth gender emerging in society. Some of them are referred as two-spirit peoples who took on tasks appropriate to the other gender, who often but did not always cross-dress, and many had special ceremonial roles in their communities (Lavenda & Schultz, 2012). Some refer these people as the homosexual group, which have also been frequently rejected by particular societies. Evidently, under such situation of biological sex variation and gender variation, the issues of sexuality including sexual identity and practices become hard to be defined and tricky. Heterosexuality is typically considered by the mass public as normal practice and identity, which is healthy and sustainable. In contrast, homosexuality is yet to be accepted by the mass public around the world as normal practice and identity. In recent time, there has been increasing number of people accepting homosexuality as the same normal variant of heterosexuality. Considering the social aspects of gender and sexuality, which are potentially related but different in nature from the study of biology, these approaches show some depression. In the first place, it is found
In essence, the problem between the social science and sexuality is that it generates a misunderstanding and confusion in social construction of sexuality, which is taken for granted by many that it denies the real biological characteristics of human beings. The truth is that the idea of social construction of sexuality or gender is misinterpreted from the very beginning. The social construction of sexuality or gender and realism of sexuality or gender should have never been opposed. A typical example that can be used for demonstration of the viewpoint is money. It is apparent that money is a social construction. The monetary notes are made of piece of either paper or plastic materials worth of nothing in nature, but human beings all choose to believe in the power of such notes. All human beings choose to believe in that these notes have actual value and can be used to effectively exchange something. While it can be agreed by all that money is a social construction, it doesn 't necessarily indicates that money is unreal. In fact, …show more content…
Gender roles and identity are usually considered as duality, but in some of the societies in the world now, there are supernumerary gender developed . There are now third or even fourth gender emerging in society. Some of them are referred as two-spirit peoples who took on tasks appropriate to the other gender, who often but did not always cross-dress, and many had special ceremonial roles in their communities (Lavenda & Schultz, 2012). Some refer these people as the homosexual group, which have also been frequently rejected by particular societies. Evidently, under such situation of biological sex variation and gender variation, the issues of sexuality including sexual identity and practices become hard to be defined and tricky. Heterosexuality is typically considered by the mass public as normal practice and identity, which is healthy and sustainable. In contrast, homosexuality is yet to be accepted by the mass public around the world as normal practice and identity. In recent time, there has been increasing number of people accepting homosexuality as the same normal variant of heterosexuality. Considering the social aspects of gender and sexuality, which are potentially related but different in nature from the study of biology, these approaches show some depression. In the first place, it is found