Gender as a Social and Cultural Process

As people interact with one another, we change the way we behave due to the meanings we give towards
these interactions. Our values, gender roles, expectations, and norms are all part of these interactions. One
account from *Insert example from a journal article regarding menswear and womenswear/ how it
establishes a dichotomy, that is rooted from cultureyou dress according to what society expects you to
dress. How should a person of a certain sex dress up? Dress accordingly to conform explain how society
and culture constructs expectations, gender roles, and gender in general **talk about the Philippines
patriarchal society and how it establishes a dichotomy- idea to categorize things is also embedded in
culture, categories are established/constructed by people. Explain bodily difference* *As such, gender
affects the choices we make (basically how we live our lives) *
It is said that human beings are social beings. We grow and learn more about the world through other
people.
We can regard ones gender as a process. Through the years, gender is seen to gradually grow and change.
That being said, a persons gender is instrumental in forming a reality, in which is socially constructed.
Ones gender is shaped by conversations, thoughts, ideas, and movements.
Gender as a Social and Cultural Process
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Pattern of growth and change in a society over the years

Gender is socially constructed

Society constructs gender roles and expectations. Example dressing up
Gender and Gender roles
Our behavior and actions are rooted from culture
Gender is the marking of difference/similarity. It is an identity that changes. Gender is never
permanent/is susceptible to change
Gender shapes the choices we make
Gender varies
*Gender is a mode of characterization based on bodies
people act toward things based on the meaning those things have for them, and these meanings
are derived from social interaction and modified through interpretation
A persons social context, in our case, his family or group of friends, as well as his social
location (e.g. gender, age group, ethnicity) help in forming a reality, which in actuality, is
socially constructed; it is shaped by conversations, thoughts, ideas, and movements, which help a
person understand the world around him. As people interact with others, we change the way we
behave based on the meaning we give to these interactions. Our values, gender roles and
expectations and norms are all part of the interaction
According to the great philosopher, Aristotle, Man is by nature a social animal; an individual
who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human.
Society is something that precedes the individual. Man cannot live alone.