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SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION GENDER [1 record]

Record 1 2024-02-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Organization
  • Sociology of Human Relations
CONT

The social construction of gender is a theory in the humanities and social sciences about the manifestation of cultural origins, mechanisms, and corollaries of gender perception and expression in the context of interpersonal and group social interaction. Specifically, the social construction of gender theory stipulates that gender roles are an achieved "status" in a social environment, which implicitly and explicitly categorize people and therefore motivate social behaviors.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation sociale
  • Sociologie des relations humaines

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