Open AccessAn Individual’s Gender Experience: Socio-Cultural Context
Author(s) -
Larysa Zahrai
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of vasyl stefanyk precarpathian national university
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2413-2349
pISSN - 2311-0155
DOI - 10.15330/jpnu.1.4.115-122
Subject(s) - sociocultural evolution , femininity , perspective (graphical) , sociocultural perspective , interpretation (philosophy) , context (archaeology) , sociology , identity (music) , psychology , gender identity , social psychology , gender studies , aesthetics , linguistics , anthropology , geography , philosophy , artificial intelligence , computer science , archaeology
The article highlights gender experience development in an individual. The sociocultural context of gender identity development is addressed from the perspective of socialconstructivism. The author describes the mechanism of constructing gender schemas and normswhich reflect socio-cultural experience. Drawing on poststructuralist ideas, the author explorescultural texts which encode assumptions and concepts that serve as schemas for perceiving andunderstanding reality, for reflecting the processes of an individual’s development as a discursivebeing in his or her interpretation of socio-cultural experience. The article also analyzes masculinityand femininity models shaped by socio-cultural schemas and explores gender role expectationsamong the young people in Ukraine