Social Constructionist Theory Of Gender

N 0. Kimmel stated, “The first time we hear that gender is socially constructed, we take it to mean we are, as individuals, not responsible for what we do. “Society made me like this, we might say. “It’s not my fault.” However, when we say gender is socially constructed, we mean our identities are fluid assemblages of meaning and behaviors that we construct from values and images we discover in the world. Gender inequality causes gender difference. Social Constructionist theory is a power relation. Men have more power than women. The main implication of social change in our gender order is necessary to fulfill our democratic ideals of freedom and equality. This approach is superior because of three I’s, which includes Gendered Identities, Gendered Interaction and Gender Institution.

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Gender order is the relationship between bodies, behaviors and roles. According to Kimmel, when challenged by the idea that gender order means that men have more power than women, men were amazed. Gender order vary from 4 genders. Variation in gender orders may be caused by and environmental factors. In reference to the book, Women, as a group were not in power. Women did not feel powerful. They felt constrained by gender inequality into stereotypic activities that prevented them from feeling comfortable and secure. However, men as a group (when compared with women) are in power but do not feel powerful. Gender orders is socially constructed because it’s created by society. The key factors are Functionalist Theory, Marxist Theory, Warfare Theory, and Alliance Theory. Different gender orders exist in which Firstly, sex and gender is different, secondly, gender is not a binary construct, thirdly, gender is not a fixed and unchanging characteristic of unchanging characteristic of