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Gender is a social construct that consist of the behaviors, the expectations that are build around whether or not you are put into one sex categories. Talking about gender as a social construction means, particularly in this culture that we view gender structure as a binary system. It means there is a Masculine which refers to male, and a feminine which refers to female and that's the way we organize our thinking around gender. That's thinking about gender as a structure.
We are given messages from the day we are born. Those messages influences the way we act, and it is not just the pieces that we are born with. From the birth, we begin to give to the little boy small wooden rifles, and the girl, she meets with a doll and a small cradle to play the mom. It is obvious that for a kid who has the moldable, quite white brain, which, as some wax, that is engraved forever. Even later, if he has the impression to think, he uses materials which we gave him while he was still practically unconscious. That marked him for a whole life. Our individuality has profound roots which escape us and exceed us because they are foreign to us, others cultivated them for us, without our knowledge. Back in the days, the man was the most waited for a long time during the birth, for economic reasons (work in fields, inheritance) or during the pure parental pride. And the woman was the homemaker, the one in charge of taking care of the family. If the expectations of parents as regards to their own children differs according to their sex, it is inevitable that these last ones react according to their demands from the first moment when they are in their arms.
Gender is a social construct that consist of the behaviors, the expectations that are build around whether or not you are put into one sex categories. Talking about gender as a social construction means, particularly in this culture that we view gender structure as a binary system. It means there is a Masculine which refers to male, and a feminine which refers to female and that's the way we organize our thinking around gender. That's thinking about gender as a structure.
We are given messages from the day we are born. Those messages influences the way we act, and it is not just the pieces that we are born with. From the birth, we begin to give to the little boy small wooden rifles, and the girl, she meets with a doll and a small cradle to play the mom. It is obvious that for a kid who has the moldable, quite white brain, which, as some wax, that is engraved forever. Even later, if he has the impression to think, he uses materials which we gave him while he was still practically unconscious. That marked him for a whole life. Our individuality has profound roots which escape us and exceed us because they are foreign to us, others cultivated them for us, without our knowledge. Back in the days, the man was the most waited for a long time during the birth, for economic reasons (work in fields, inheritance) or during the pure parental pride. And the woman was the homemaker, the one in charge of taking care of the family. If the expectations of parents as regards to their own children differs according to their sex, it is inevitable that these last ones react according to their demands from the first moment when they are in their arms.
An essentialist will say, we see differences gender between men and women simply if we just go back to their make up. It ‘s all about their brain, chromosomes, the physical appearance and so on. As Model, the family itself holds an essential place within the infantile identification: this first image of the male and feminine roles is determining for the child, and he will naturally tend to reproduce them. If the integration of the model of a couple as the social standard of the gender relations is dominant, the family brings and plans incredibly forts of representation of the male and feminine roles. We know the importance today which plays the imitation of the parents in the psychological development of a child, and, even if the situation is never the same from a family to the other one, the family environment remains all the same an essential factor of gender roles.
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