What does it mean to say that sexuality is socially constructed?
Sexuality is based on the construction shaped by society
(labeling men as masculine and women as feminine) this view is recent and changing.
Gender being socially constructed means
society has made a framework of what male and female roles in and out of the home are suppose to be
. Gender is made by our society’s guidelines on what is “acceptable” gender roles. … Men are held to a high standard of what they are expected to do.
Within sexuality research, social. constructionists look at how sexuality is continuously constructed and reconstructed through. socio-cultural processes and practices. These processes and practices are said to shape
our
.
understandings of the sexual body, sexual behaviours, and sexual identities
(Seidman, 2003).
The social construction of difference is
a categorical system used to artificially define people
. … Oppressed people are denied access to opportunities that are granted to those in power simply due to socially constructed labels such as race, gender, sexual orientation, class, age, ability.
Social Construction
. This is any category, condition, or thing that exists or is understood to have certain characteristics because people socially agree that it does. Wilderness. This is a natural parcel of land, more or less unaffected by human forces; increasingly, wilderness is viewed as a social construction.
Social constructionism is the theory that
people develop knowledge of the world in a social context
, and that much of what we perceive as reality depends on shared assumptions.
Examples. Some examples of social constructs are
countries and money
. It is easier to see how countries could be social constructs than it is to see how money is a social construct. Countries would not exist were it not for human interaction.
What does it mean to do gender quizlet?
“Doing gender means
creating differences between girl and boys and women and men
.” These differences are socially constructed and reconstructed through everyday interactions, but most people come to see them as “essential,” natural, innate biological differences.
Specifically, the social construction of gender stipulates that
gender roles are an achieved “status” in a social environment
, which implicitly and explicitly categorize people and therefore motivate social behaviors.
Judith Lorber (1994) describes gender as a type of institution that has established patterns of expectations for individuals based on whether they are male or female. … This institution is
purely based on a set of learned ideas that have shaped the way our society thinks and has nothing to do with our actual biology
.
How do you determine your ethnicity?
Ethnicity is a broader term than race. The term is used to categorize groups of people
according to their cultural expression and identification
. Commonalities such as racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin may be used to describe someone’s ethnicity.
Social constructionism is a
theory of knowledge that holds that characteristics typically thought to be immutable and solely
biological—such as gender, race, class, ability, and sexuality—are products of human definition and interpretation shaped by cultural and historical contexts (Subramaniam 2010).
That’s why we say race is a social construct:
it’s a human-invented classification system
. It was invented as a way to define physical differences between people, but has more often been used as a tool for oppression and violence.
Terms in this set (7)
A social construct is
concept/practice everyone in society agrees to treat a certain way regardless of its inherent value
, ex. money.
the process by which people creatively shape reality through social interactions
.
STUDY
.
social problem
.
a social condition or pattern of behavior that has negative consequences for individuals
, our social world, or our physical world. objectivist.
