Our perceptions of sex and gender are shaped by the time and place in which we were born. We learn to critically think as college students, and we learn that in order for us to believe anything to be true, we must see evidence to back it up, especially when the idea is deeply embedded and central to our identities. Social constructionism is a sociological and communication theory of knowing that studies the evolution of jointly-constructed worldviews that serve as the foundation for shared ideas about reality.
Both weak and strong social constructs will be found. Essentialism holds that every entity has a set of characteristics that are required for its identity and function. Plato's idealism argued that everything has a "essence" and a "idea" or "form" in early Western philosophy. All human behavior is innate, defined by genes, brain size, or other biological characteristics, according to biological determination. This argument contradicts the idea that human conduct is influenced by culture or other social factors. Essentialism often relies on a biological determinist view of identity, which is why I bring up those terms.
According to Subramaniam (2014), biological determinism is a general theory that believes that a group's biological or genetic base influences its social, political, and economic fate. "Sex" is regarded to be a biological "fact," where bodies are assumed to have "sex"-distinct chromosomes, reproductive systems, hormones, and sex characteristics, as an example presented in our Women's studies Lesson 3. However, depending on the context, the term "sex" has been defined in a variety of ways.
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