Examples Of Social Deconstructionism

Social constructionism analyzes the growth of jointly constructed understanding in the world that forms the stepping stones of the shared conclusion about realty. Deconstructionism on the other hand means something cannot just have one meaning because the meaning depends on the individual. For example, looking at sex,gender and sexuality through the social constructionism. We can see these terms in way only exist because we give them meaning as humans we make these terms real because we all agree as a society its important to give meaning to these terms.
Deconstructionism on the other hand looks at sex, gender and sexuality at its core on the other words it goes after its structure. We have to continually modify our way of thinking we have to find the flaws. We all have different views of these terms so we cant essentially all agree on these meanings. If i am asked to think of the
word gender my response is going to be different from neighbors for example. We cant think of the exact same definition we are going to view this term differently no matter how much we try to agree on it. Messerschmidt argues that these theories and gender as an embodied performance is important. Because of all the research that has been conducted trust far. And the benefits it brought to mankind like the findings that have contributed to you violence. He also argues that we can view at three levels local, regional and global.
Social norms such a racial and ethnic categories can influence understandings of sex, gender and sexuality in a number of ways.
For example a woman in florida was sentenced to twenty years in prison because she fired a gun in the air when her house was being robbed. And the court system saw this as attempted murder. Some might view this first as a woman getting harsh sentence. And on top of that she was african american so that made it even worse. Since African Americans have a higher percentage of getting incarcerated.
Intersectionality means social categorizations such as race class and gender come together and intersect to make us who we are. It fights back against discrimination. For example lets say someone has a disability and they are the older brother of his family so he is expected to provide for his family yet no one wants to hire him. This persons identity is chosen for home opposed to someone who lives a normal life. Who's parents went to college and they are a white american they do not really have to worry about someone or something trying to enforce an identity on
them.
This last term is important to me because growing up i attended a school that was mostly caucasian. And i was mocked for being latino. And so were the other few kids who were colored. We were taunted for being colored and we were also taunted because our parents were not from this country no to mention that the other latinos were mostly girls. So they were picked on for coming from differently background while also for being a girl. As a opposed to a white male that does not have to worry about these identities being pushed on him.