Sociology Socially Constructed

In order to sociologists examined a social phenomenon they ask themselves four different questions: “How are the things that we take to be natural actually socially constructed?” , “ How is social order possible?, “ Does the individual matter”, “How are the times in which we are living different from the times that came before”. In this essay I will explain and compare how gender can be connected with those question.

The term gender refers to the characteristics that a society or culture describe as masculine or feminine. The first question talks about how the things that we see can be either natural (the things we cannot change) or socially constructed (the things that are created by human beings). One example that is connected with gender …show more content…
In sociology the individual will matter if their lives are based on social roles, gender, race, and class. More specifically we can predict if the individual matter based in their class status. For example the pope is important in the society because of his social status. This is significant because that will benefit the society. I can connect this question to my topic gender since with do some different roles in the society that will categorized us in different status as a female and male. The last question is about how are the times in which we are living different from the times that came before, social change is the key for the answer. Social change is the transformation of culture and social institutions over time. One theory that support social change is by Max Weber he state that “ looked at the way the world had been changing due to the influences of massive large-scale organization, and large bureaucratic organization had changed and transformed social life”. This means that over the time things change us, since new invention and discovery are found, but we also contribute to those changes by creating and supporting them. I can connect this to my topic gender since, gender roles between men and female had being changing in generations. For example women are becoming more independent, men stayed at home, while the wife works, they also cook and help the children. This is significant because before women were use to do only house things and men work. As result, we can see that social change has be the key to transform the lives of people in