Social Construction Of Gender Analysis

Sociological belief is that gender is socially constructed. The articles, “Night to His Day” by Judith Lorber, “Football Ritual and the Social Reproduction of Masculinity” by Donald F. Sabo and Joe Panepinto and from Sociology: The Basics by John J. Macionis, section ten titled “Gender Stratification”, gender is explained, it is supported that gender is socially constructed and how today in the United States people become gendered.
Gender is defined as “the personal traits and social positions that members of a society attach to being female or male” (Macionis 2017: 125). Macionis is stating that specific traits are placed on a certain biological characteristic that defines something as being male or female. “Most people find it hard to believe that gender is …show more content…
Gender does not come from sex but the personal traits and social positions that members of a society attach to being female or male Macionis (2017).
Sociological belief is that gender is socially constructed. Macionis (2017) says, gender is socially constructed as, it is created by people and is shaped by cultural and historical contexts. Judith Lorber explains throughout her article how gender is socially constructed. “The work adults do as mothers and fathers and as low-level workers and high-level bosses, shape’s women’s and men’s life experiences, and these experiences produce different feelings, consciousness, relationships, skills-ways of being that we cell feminine or masculine. All of these processes constitute the social construction of gender” (Lorber 2005: 121). “Yet gender, like culture, is a human production that depends on everyone constantly ‘doing gender’. And everyone is ‘does gender’ without thinking about it” (Lorber 2005: 121). Judith Lorber supports the theory that gender is socially constructed as everyday people are “doing gender” by following the path of least resistance of the social norms placed upon a specific