Anabolic Interactionism: Symbolic Interactionism

On a micro level symbolic interactionism instills itself with in society when it comes to the sex of the person. By constantly seeing social rules enforced it perpetuates an imagined set by society. Men are interpreted as gentlemen by opening doors for women or paying for dinner. This interpretation of men is set as the norm according to the society. This concept of male is frequently being depicted in the media in the form of movies, novels and etc. The same thing goes for women, what if a woman wanted be a firefighter? Her coworkers would probably harass her. Society would tell her that she is going against her gender role. Society is teaching females the rules of social behavior and if you deviate from it there are consequences. All these

Schwartz and Rutter incorporate gender differences because they intersect with each other. Integrative is expecting to merge individual things. Schwartz and Rutter lean towards integrative because sex encompasses biology, sociobiology and evolutionary psychology, and social constructionism collectively. Sex is discussed, heard, and thought about within our society. Sex can never escape our society the desire will always be there, no matter the ethnicity, gender, religion etc. Sex is more than just sexual relations between a woman and man it goes further than biology. On a social and biological level a woman for instance could have arousal dysfunction and her male counter partner takes the blame by society. Social construction puts the blame on the male because the male could not please his partner. By societies standards the male must be inefficient in his sexual prowess. As you can see a biological issue (arousal dysfunction) becomes a social issue in the public sphere. This brings attention of a biological matter that highlights the social

The context of biology is that sex can never escape sexuality because they depend on each other’s coexistence. Biological involvements and social context have an integrative relationship. In society there’s no differentiating heterosexual and homosexuality because society believes homosexuality is essentially an innate aspiration that nature cannot change. In this situation the object of desire that matters is gender according to society. Society believes that homosexual men are attracted to femininity and that homosexual women are attracted to masculinity in their partners. So in the society of same-sex relationships it is believed that gay men and lesbians are fascinated with the opposite gender of the person. This is once again social context having an influence on sexual identity and sexual orientation. Sexual orientation is influential to the western cultures because sexual identity is linked to gender. When it comes to sexual identity in a relationship a strict distinctive rule must be confirm between male and female. For example in a same-sex relationship by society standards there has to be a male or female counter part to play each role. This displays that a sexual partner genders of greater importance to the social interest within society and sexuality. Biology deals with the actual sensation of sexual organs from passionate experience, it becomes receptive