What might it mean to say that gender is socially constructed?

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Hi everyone!

For our next discussion board, let’s think through a series of related questions concerning this notion we keep hitting upon – social construction. We’ve seen how social construction approaches to the study of science identify and analyze how science and society are interrelated. So far, so good.

Now, let’s aim to get a bit more specific..

1.What might it mean to say that gender is socially constructed?

2.What might it mean to say that race is ‘socially constructed’?

3.Can we think of examples of race and/or gender as social constructs?

4.Finally, what might it mean to suggest that bodies – our physical, biological bodies – are in some significant sense, socially constructed?

Isn’t a biological body just, well, a body???