must view gender as a social institution. Society bases gender on sex and applies a sex category to people in daily life by recognizing gender markers. Sex is the foundation to which gender is created. We must understand the difference between anatomical sex and gender in order to grasp the development of gender. First, I will be assessing existing perspectives on the social construction of gender. Next, I will analyze three case studies and explain how gender construction is applied in order to…
look into the social construction of youth, arguing whether sociology can help us understand the nature of adolescents. This will be done by first finding the definitions of adolescents and sociology, secondly it will discuss the different sociological perspectives (Marxist, Functionalist and Post-modernist) on what their perspective on youth and youth subcultures are and how they can help people to understand the nature of adolescents. Leading on to the analysation of social construction; what it is…
unwritten rules in society, which build the social world in which we live in. Societies expectations are socially constructed depending on gender and sex leading society to be patterned, which can lead to consequences. Social construction of gender is socially constructed rules that people follow and live by. The social construction of gender approach is what seems to be the reality but, is really not real (Scott Coltrane 1988;1). The social construction of gender rules can be either implicit or…
Social Contructionism In chapter 2 of Surette, Social constructionism is a sociological theory of knowledge that consist how social objects of consciousness work in social contexts. There is often a debate about whether something is "real" or if it’s "merely" a social construct. For instance, If you believe social constructions aren't real, then please take out all the bills in your wallet and pass them up to me. Money is an example of a social construction that plays an extremely important…
component of the distinction between races leads to the justification of race and gender as a purely social construct, meaning society is the sole producer that developed these two categories as a means to classify people. This unjustified categorization continually generates inescapable troubles for every person. Through the use of personal anecdotes, I will analyze the unfair expectations the social construction of race and gender produce and illustrate how this results in a negative view of one’s image…
I’ll first like to mention, how thankful I am to go to a liberal art college and to be able to take a gender course. I went in the course thinking that I would have to change my opinions on certain topics just to earn a good grade but it wasn’t like that. In the classroom, I felt safe to have opinions and during the group discussions to voice my thoughts. I enjoyed to hear the different perspectives from my professor and peers, it helped me adjust my ideas. Another thing I appreciated was that my…
which subsequently shapes the way we construct our identity, socialise our children and allocate roles in our communities and families. Social construction of gender explains how and why society and culture’s create gender roles. How these roles are then viewed as normal and appropriate behaviour? According to Allard, Cooper, Hildebrand, & Wealands the construction of gender identities is not fixed but ongoing, fluid and changeable, they argue we “are not passively shaped by the larger societal forces…
It has only been three weeks and I have never had a class that has personally affected me as much as this one. This week’s reading, “The Social Construction of Unreality: A Case Study of a Family’s Attribution of Competence to a Severely Retarded Child” by Pollner and McDonald-Wilker, really made me question my entire life and the role that my family has had in my education. I am in my second year at UCLA with a full scholarship for tuition and very minimal loans. Granted I have had some ups and…
gender. In the following text, I plan to demonstrate what exactly social construction is, and with the help of author George Ritzer, will establish that the concept of gender is entirely man-made. Additionally, I will also differentiate gender from that of its naturally occurring counterpart, sex. To fully understand how socially fabricated gender is, one must first grasp what exactly social construction is. The social construction of reality is defined as “the continuous process of individual creation…
Social Construction of Gender Today’s society plays a very important role in the construction of gender. Gender is a type of issue that has raised many questions over the years in defining and debating if both male and female are equal. Today gender is constructed in four different ways. The first way gender is defined is by the family in which a child is raised. Second is the society in which a child interacts; makes friends and enemies. The third is our school system and our board of…