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Headings: Social construction of gender
Social construction of gender
Contents
Basic concepts
Status (feminist theory)
Social constructionism
Gender
Gender roles
Gender identity
Sexuality/sexual orientation
Core gender identity
Intersections of gender identity with other identities
Gender as accomplishment
Accountability
Sex and sex category
Applications of gender performance
Infancy and young childhood
Teen years
Queer identity
Political potential and limits
During development
Gender-based harassment
Adolescent view of adulthood
Depression
Body image
Education
Media
Research methods
Promoting social change and criticisms
Social change
Criticism and opportunities to "undo" gender
Nature versus nurture
See also
References
Further reading

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The social construction of gender is a theory in feminism and sociology 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 stipulates that gender roles are an achieved "status" in a social environment, which implicitly and explicitly categorize people and therefore motivate social behaviors. A related matter in feminist theory is the relationship between the ascribed status of assigned sex ( male or female) and their achieved status counterparts in gender ( masculine and feminine ). Contents
1 Basic concepts
1.1 Status (feminist theory)
1.2 Social constructionism
1.3 Gender
1.3.1 Gender roles
1.3.2 Gender identity
1.3.3 Sexuality/sexual orientation
1.3.3.1 Core gender identity
1.3.3.2 Intersections of gender identity with other identities
1.3.4 Gender as accomplishment
1.3.5 Accountability
1.4 Sex and sex category
2 Applications of gender performance
2.1 Infancy and young childhood
2.2 Teen years
2.3 Queer identity
2.4 Political potential and limits
3 During development
3.1 Gender-based harassment
3.2 Adolescent view of adulthood
3.3 Depression
3.4 Body image
3.5 Education
3.6 Media
4 Research methods
5 Promoting social change and criticisms
5.1 Social change
5.2 Criticism and opportunities to "undo" gender
5.3 Nature versus nurture
6 See also
7 References
8 Further reading
Basic concepts
See also: Socialization § Gender socialization, and Sociology of gender § Gender and socialization
Status (feminist theory)
Main article: Feminist theory
In the context of feminist theory, the word status deviates from its colloquial usage meaning rank or prestige but instead refers to a series of strata or categories by which societies are divided, in some ways synonymous with "labels" or "roles". The semantic distinctions of "labels" and "roles" are homogenized into the term "status" and then re-differentiated by the division into "ascribed status" and "achieved status" respectively.