Gary Kinsman Psychological Analysis

Gary Kinsman contends that our attraction is influenced by society and the primary factors on why individuals are the way they are and the material world is evolving benefiting society’s growth. Factors of why individuals are the way is that the attraction we develop for other people is controlled by ourselves not by our genes.

Social constructionism is created by individuals in society who have particular opinions on how society should be. In regards, to the work of Kinsman he states “Common-sense is a crucial part of the social construction of hegemony, the social practices of consent and coercion through which ruling in a society is organized. This new “common-sense” has been used to undermine social construction-oriented perspectives on sexual politics and queer liberation which argue that sexualities are
Since society has developed into a broader spectrum of various “gender based erotic cultures” (Kinsman 274), society’s view of being normal is to be heterosexual as opposed to being a person that identifies themselves as a queer sexuality where they are known as irregular. Furthermore, Kinsman discusses his views on social constructionism having a material basis. “My perspective on social constructionism is that the social is far more than the discursive, and has a material basis. The material realm cannot be reduced to the “economic” or to “things” and “objects.” The material world must also be seen as having a constantly changing and not a static character and must centrally include human sensuous social practices, including consciousness and eroticism, through which the world is created and transformed” (Kinsman