User:LeAnnegarcia2/Social construction of gender

According to West and Zimmerman, is not a personal trait; it is "an emergent feature of social situations: both as an outcome of and a rationale for various social arrangements, and as a means of legitimating one of the most fundamental divisions of society." copied from [[ Social construction of gender ] ]

The way people act and behave has to do with how the world has trained them to behave rather than the sex they were given at birth.

The work The Blank Slate of Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, demonstrates the existence of socially constructed categories such as "money, tenure, citizenship, decorations for bravery, and the presidency of the United States." which "exist only because people tacitly agree to act as if they exist." However, they are not a support of the social constructionism as the principle lens through which to understand reality, but rather a specific context for particular social phenomena. copied from [ [ Social construction of gender] ]

Having a social construct goes based on if the certain idea at hand has been around for a long period of time and the concept is being questioned at this period of time. The construct only exists if people choose for it to exist.