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Social constructionism

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attention deficit hyperactivity disorder controversies
controversies relating to ADHD
dominant narrative
Frequently repeated stories in society
Karin Knorr Cetina
Austrian sociologist
Jonathan Ned Katz
historian (born 1938)
Kathy Rudy
American academic
psychological sociology
area of sociology focused on social actions
Mary Susan McIntosh
British sociologist, feminist, political activist and LGBTQ+ rights campaigner
Trevor Pinch
British sociologist (1952–2021)
social construction of gender
theory in feminism and sociology
Noel Ignatiev
American author and historian (1940–2019)
social construct
any category or thing that is made real by convention or collective agreement
Residential segregation
the physical separation of two or more groups into different neighborhoods
nomos
customs of social and political behavior, socially constructed and historically specific
boundary
legal limit of an immovable real estate property
masculine beauty ideal
socially constructed norm relating to male body image
feminisation of the workplace
the trend towards greater employment of women, and of men willing and able to operate with these more 'feminine' modes of interaction
social epidemiology
branch of epidemiology
sexual script theory
theory in sociology
wildness
right|thumb|200px|A wild red fox right|thumb|200px|A wild forest Wildness, in its literal sense, is the quality of being wild or untamed. Beyond this, it has been defined as a quality produced in nature and that which is not domesticated. More recently, it has been defined as "a quality of interactive processing between organism and nature where the realities of base natures are met, allowing the construction of durable systems" and "the autonomous ecological influences of nonhuman organisms."
gender essentialism
concept used to examine the attribution of fixed, intrinsic, innate qualities to women and men
Erich Goode
American sociologist
Anarchy is What States Make of It
The reaction resulting from the action.
Michael Messner
American sociologist
media and gender
relationship between mass media and gender
foodways
In social science, foodways are the cultural, social, and economic practices relating to the production and consumption of food. Foodways often refers to the intersection of food in culture, traditions, and history.
Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg
German sociologist
persuasive definition
form of stipulative definition which purports to describe the true or commonly accepted meaning of a term
doing gender
concept
theory of constructed emotion
scientific theory (psychology)
gender polarization
concept by Sandra Bem
Judith Lorber
American sociologist
imagined geographies
specific social perception of space generated by texts, images, and/or discourses; form of social constructivism
Social shaping of technology
Viola Klein
British sociologist
biographical research
empirical research method