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social construction
sociology
Also known as: social construct
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gender identity
- In gender identity
…identity is expressed, is “socially constructed”—i.e., determined by social and cultural influences. Social constructivism of the latter type is not necessarily incompatible with essentialism, because it is possible for a supposedly innate gender identity to be expressed in different ways in different cultures. Finally, a variation of social constructivism…
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