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Social Construction of Gender
The social construction of gender is a central feature of contemporary gender studies within sociology as well as within other social science and humanities fields. The term and attendant theories assert that the behaviors, beliefs, embodied identities, and the experiences of men and women are not the product of innate biology. Instead, processes of socialization based on the norms, values, and social structures within a particular social context shape individuals. As an elaboration of the metatheory of social constructionism, arguments about the social construction of gender emerged as part of the feminist critiques of sexism and phallocentrism within the lives and social roles of individuals, in scientific knowledge creation, and in society at large. Since then, the theories and methodological practices that rely on an understanding of gender as socially constructed have been integrated throughout most fields of social and scientific study. Within the field of education, theoretical and empirical attention has focused on whether and how education as an agent of socialization participates in the construction and reproduction of gendered citizens and gender stratification.
This entry begins with a discussion of the concept of social constructionism as opposed to essentialism and how these two discourses have produced different narratives regarding sex and gender. The entry continues with an explanation of the differences between sex and gender as categories and the limits of notions of biology and nature in regard to an understanding of human gender expression. The entry concludes with reflections on education as a site for the normalization of gender conformity and the critiques of this model presented by scholars and activists, particularly those from the transgender communities.
Analytical Origins
Social constructionism developed in the 1960s in opposition to the taken-for-granted, essentialist approaches that dominated scientific and social scientific study. Tied to assumptions of materialist reality that are integral to positivism, essentialism assumes that all things (including types of human beings) have intrinsic, unchangeable properties. To know what type of thing an entity is, is to know what that thing is like and not like, how it behaves, and how it will respond to stimuli, according to essentialism. This metatheory has historically attributed the nature of human beings to a number of forces including a god or gods, to nature, or in the case of modern science, to biology and more specifically to genes and genetic imperatives.
Within the social sciences, essentialism manifested as the search for biological bases for individual, interpersonal, and societal practices and patterns of inequality. Historically, this meant looking for explanations of criminality within facial features and measurements (phrenology), substantiating racial inequality in polygenism (that humans are descended from different, unequal genetic lines), and gender roles in “natural law.” More contemporarily, differences between men and women have been explained by the effects of hormones on brain structure and function, or on natural, physiological difference. Explanations for educational inequalities between boys and girls, for example, argued that boys had a genetic predisposition for math and science and this accounted for differences in test scores and educational outcomes. Research, however, has documented that little difference actually exists in mathematics testing between genders, whereas social stereotypes and interpersonal dynamics within the classroom continue to influence girls' performance.
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- Achievement Gap
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- Social Capital
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- Social Hierarchy
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- Suburban Schooling
- Undocumented Immigrants, Children of
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- United States, Education of Immigrants in
- Urban Underclass
- A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® Institute
- Activity Theory, Teacher Education, and Diversity
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- Alternative Pathways Into Teaching
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- Culturally Responsive Assessment
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- Dysconscious Racism and Teacher Education
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- Internationalization of Teacher Education
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- Mathematics, Teacher Preparation for Diversity
- Mentoring, Teacher Preparation Pedagogy
- Multicultural Teacher Education
- REACH Center
- Research on Diversity and Teacher Education
- Rural Schools, Teacher Preparation for Diversity
- School Leadership for Diversity
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- Social Justice and Teacher Education: Issues, Challenges, and a Theory
- Social Justice Teacher Education
- Special Education, Teacher Education, and Diversity
- Students With Special Needs, Teacher Preparation for Diversity
- Teacher Accreditation Programs: Accreditation and Diversity
- Teacher Education in the United States: Approaches to Improvement
- Teacher Educator Preparation for Diversity
- Teacher Preparation for Diversity
- Teacher Preparation for Diversity, History and Social Studies
- Teacher Preparation Pedagogy, Child Study Approach
- Teacher Preparation Pedagogy, Community-Based
- Teacher Preparation Pedagogy, Critical Reflection and
- Teacher Preparation Pedagogy, Practitioner Research
- Urban Schools, Teacher Preparation for Diversity
- White Teachers, Teacher Preparation for Diversity
- Academic Standards
- Achievement Gap
- Achievement Gap and Tracking, International Evidence
- Achievement Tests
- Advanced Placement Tests
- Alternative Assessments
- Aptitude Tests
- Assessment in Special and Inclusive Education
- Attitudes of Preschool Children, Implicit Measures of
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- Classroom Assessment and Diversity
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- Equity in Assessment
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- Opportunity-to-Learn Standards
- Standardized Testing and Standards
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- Test Scores, Validity and Validation of
- Testing, Historical Development of
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- Tests, Translation of
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