Gender: The Social Stereotypes Of Gender And Gender

Forum 1: Gender Gender is socially constructed by social situations that we are put in from birth. As soon as we are born we are classified by our sex or biological characteristics that distinguish a man from a women. From then on we are associated with the stereotypes of boys and girls by wearing a bow or pink blanket. Media feeds these ideas of how boys or girls should act which can also influence the way we interact with our peers. We can also look throughout history to see the different roles men and women played based on their gender. Therefore by our culture’s set up and looking throughout history we can determine that gender is not a property of individuals but rather a feature of social situations. However Cherlin (2013:91) states “children may have innate predispositions that affect gender differences in …show more content…
Thus giving both arguments that gender is a socially constructed idea but also is bred into our genetics. This allows us to assume that our gender identity is formed based off biological and social cues. For example, growing up I was given a doll