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    Social Construction of Gender The theory of social construction of gender is embedded views from society on gender roles‚ responsibility and our rights. Everyday activities are assumed that a certain gender is expected to do something rather than both genders taking on activities and keeping both genders equal. Men are assumed to go to work and women are expected to stay home and take care of the house and care for the children. It is not a norm for society to have the roles reversed. When a child

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    Class.... Here it is Everyone’s life is affected by social construction. This is the belief that knowledge is determined by society‚ and in turn (knowledge) is formed by the individuals that belong to the society. When an individual thinks of a doctor‚ lawyer‚ priest‚ engineer‚ or manager they usually picture males. While nurses‚ teachers‚ and housewives (emphasis on wives) are purely female professions in our society. This is social constructionist thought on what role a male/female should

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    November 7‚ 2010 Sociology 134‚ Section 1 The Social Construction of Gender in Cartoons Defining what is “normal” for a specific gender role in society is a very skeptical classification. Though the roles of men and women might seem obvious‚ most scientists distinguish a huge difference in gender and sex. Gender roles are not biologically determined‚ but vary according to the culture‚ and they are socially assembled‚ either internally or externally. While observing the external influence

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    PART ONE Social and Historical Constructions of Gender Why start an introduction to women ’s studies textbook with a discussion of science and medicine? If we begin our study of women ’s lives by considering what makes women and men distinct in different cultures and time periods‚ we first have to ask what counts as difference. Many people think that biology answers such a question once and for all. But science (including biology) has a history. People produce ideas and methods for science based

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    The textbook Gender Ideas‚ Interactions‚ Institutions defines gender as the symbolism of masculinity and femininity that we connect to being male-bodied or female-bodied (Wade‚ Ferree‚ 2015). Society today tends to define gender as simply being male or female. Social construction is defined as a process by which we make reality meaningful through share interpretation (Wade‚ Ferree‚ 2015). Has society constructed the idea of gender by creating a world where we believe that there are only two types

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    Society plays a big role in constructing the gender of a female and male. Do we become who we are as individuals because we are born a female and male or do we accumulate traits as we grow up? As we grow up we are expected to do certain things as part of our gender rule. In today’s society‚ Mass media production like magazines‚ video games‚ movies‚ and clothing influences many young males and females. Heteronormativity is the view that emphasizes the difference between a man and woman. As an assumption

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    Gender a Discussion Gendering has become a way for sociologist to view the changing social structure in today’s society. With the sexual revolution of the sixties academics worked to develop a means to label the different attitudes of the new generation emerging. In the documentary Gender: The Enduring Paradox they interview the very young and old white male and female subjects‚ a noted African American female poet‚ and an Asian female writer/director. The interviews with the young have leading

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    earlier 1970s was taught to be an ascribed status‚ while gender was an achieved status that was constructed through psychological‚ cultural‚ and social means. Although there are many distinctions in biology between males and females‚ this does not change how gender is shaped in the lives of people. Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman believe that gender is not a set of traits‚ nor a role‚ but the product of social doings. They claim that gender itself is constituted through interaction. A case study

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    to Lorber‚ “For the individual‚ gender construction starts with assignment to a sex category on the basis of what the genitalia look like at birth.” (1993: 97) From that point‚ until puberty‚ children are socialized into their prescribed gender roles. However‚ Lorber tell us because there are separate activities socially constructed as feminine or masculine‚ the experiences associated with these activities would all contribute to the social construction of gender (1993). The first evidentiary support

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    Three theories that will be explored in this project include: social constructiongender and socialization. Social construction refers to the ways in which reality is negotiated in everyday life through people’s interactions and through sets of discourses (AL. James& A. James‚ 2012‚ p.116). Furthermore‚ this theory suggests that we all have different experiences of childhood. The experiences of children all around the world will differ. We cannot assume that children’s experiences of high school

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