scholarly journals Unraveling the Mystery of “The Specificity of Women’s Sexual Response and Its Relationship with Sexual Orientations”: The Social Construction of Sex and Sexual Identities

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 1207-1211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane M. Ussher
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Sexual Response ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sexual Orientations

scholarly journals The Dichotomy of Sexuality

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophia Fantus
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Western Perspective ◽  
Epistemological Framework

This paper examines sexuality and the social construction of the sexual binary divide, illustrating how sexual identities have progressed, developed, and transformed.  Social categories have been created as a form of social control and have therefore perpetuated stereotypical attitudes and discriminatory acts.  This paper will illustrate how institutional and individual level harms have occurred due to the continued dichotomization of sexuality; and simultaneously how such categorizations have, in contrast, helped to form supportive and cohesive communities. Concluding, this paper will contend that dichotomous categories leave no room for individuals to question or explore their own sexuality; the sexual divide ignores the changing sexualities within today’s modern western perspective.  Deriving from a social work perspective, this paper argues that a narrative epistemological framework remains the best practice to recognize and address the complex and multifaceted nature of sexual identity.

Boys' Thoughts and Talk about Sex in a Working Class Locality of Glasgow

1994 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 703-737 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Wight
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Heterosexual Sex ◽  
Depth Interviews

This paper analyses data on sexuality from ethnographic research and from group discussions and in-depth interviews with 58 14–16 year old males in two schools. The research was carried out in a working class locality (Brockhill) in Glasgow, Scotland. Fourteen to sixteen year old boys in Brockhill lead homosocial lives and learn about sex and develop their sexual identities almost entirely from males. Heterosexuality is taken-for-granted as the cultural norm. There is considerable ambivalence about heterosexual sex, however, because of the gulf between male and female worlds, the inconsistencies between the dominant norm of teenage male sexuality and the boys' own personal experiences and emotions, and the vulnerability of their sexual identities. Although most boys conform to the convention of talking about sex in a way that objectifies women and focuses on male gratification, this discourse does not always reflect their more private views, particularly amongst those most familiar with girls. Several of these latter respondents expressed frustration with the passive role to which girls usually conform. There is a strong sense of the social construction of sexuality, but resignation to the idea that existing norms are inevitable.

At Home with Down Syndrome and Gender

Hypatia ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 89-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophia Isako Wong
Keyword(s):  
Down Syndrome ◽  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Sex Selection ◽  
Selective Abortion ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
Life Plans ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender

I argue that there is an important analogy between sex selection and selective abortion of fetuses diagnosed with Down syndrome. There are surprising parallels between the social construction of Down syndrome as a disability and the deeply entrenched institutionalization of sexual difference in many societies. Prevailing concepts of gender and mental retardation exert a powerful influence in constructing the sexual identities and life plans of people with Down syndrome, and also affect their families' lives.1

Sexual Identities

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Colm Hogan
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Critical Period ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Transgender People ◽  
Gender Essentialism ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Limited Scope

Cognitive cultural theorists have rarely taken up sex, sexuality, or gender identity. When they have done so, they have often stressed the evolutionary sources of gender differences. In Sexual Identities, Patrick Hogan extends his previous work on identity to discuss the complexities of sex, the diversity of sexuality, and the limited scope of gender. Hogan begins with a rarely drawn distinction between practical identity (the patterns in what one does, thinks, and feels) and categorial identity (how one labels oneself or is categorized by society). He adds to this a nuanced reformulation of the idea of social construction, distinguishing ideology, situational determination, shallow socialization, and deep (or critical period) socialization. On the basis of this, and wide-ranging citation of empirical research, Hogan argues for a systematic skepticism about gender differences and a view of sexuality as evolved but also in many ways contingent and highly variable. In Hogan’s analysis, the variability of sexuality and the near absence of gender fixity—the imperfect alignment of practical and categorial identities in both cases—give rise to the social practices that Judith Butler refers to as “regulatory regimes.” Hogan goes on to explore the cognitive and affective operation of such regimes. Hogan concludes by turning to sex and the question of how to understand transgendering in a way that respects the dignity of transgender people, without reverting to gender essentialism. Throughout the study, Hogan draws on a diverse body of literary works, not simply to illustrate prior arguments, but to develop his analyses.

The Social Construction of Our Bodies

1992 ◽  
Vol 37 (11) ◽  
pp. 1186-1186
Author(s):  
Garth J. O. Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
The Social

The social construction of stay-at-home fathering across everyday spaces.

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-205
Author(s):  
Heidi Mattila
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
The Social ◽  
At Home

The Social Construction of a Perfect Market: The Strawberry Auction at Fontaines-en-Sologne

2010 ◽  
pp. 73-89
Author(s):  
M.-F. Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Invisible Hand ◽  
The Social ◽  
Per Se

The article examines social conditions and mechanisms of the emergence in 1982 of a «Dutch» strawberry auction in Fontaines-en-Sologne, France. Empirical study of this case shows that perfect market does not arise per se due to an «invisible hand». It is a social construction, which could only be put into effect by a hard struggle between stakeholders and large investments of different forms of capital. Ordinary practices of the market dont differ from the predictions of economic theory, which is explained by the fact that economic theory served as a frame of reference for the designers of the auction. Technological and spatial organization as well as principal rules of trade was elaborated in line with economic views of perfect market resulting in the correspondence between theory and reality.

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