WGSS 3998 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Transformational Leadership, Social Constructionism

• School: UConn
• Department: Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• Course: WGSS 3998
• Professor: Chrystal Smith

Document Summary

Social constructs depend on brute facts, can"t be explained by anything else. Whole of reality depends on language and habits/actions and all knowledge is a social. Theory that knowledge and many aspects of the world aren"t real, they only exist. Nations, money and books don"t exist outside of humanity. Social constructionism because we give them existence through social agreement. Strong social constructionism construct and there are no brute facts. Social constructionism: create reality, based on prior experiences, social interactions and beliefs. Men: tend to be more physical, more spontaneous. Women: tend to be more relational (in some studies), but also more sensitive to. Physical aggression is harm to body, relational is harm to the psyche. See differences in emotion and aggression when others are watching/ when we expect. Women hesitate more, smile more, are better emotional decoders, and gaze. Gender differences in social constructionism to see it.