Skip to main content

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Preferred term

social construction of gender  

Definition

  • Society creates categories for simplifying information, serving as institutions commonly understood and practiced within the culture. These categories include age, race, ethnicity, and gender, and one's understanding of these categories is co-constructed through social interaction. [Source: Encyclopedia of Gender in Media; Social Construction of Gender]

Belongs to group

URI

https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/social_construction_of_gender

Download this concept: