Gender Research Methodology in the Modern World: An Individual’s Gender Experience

Authors

  • Larysa Zahrai доктор психологічних наук, завідувач кафедри соціальної психології ДВНЗ «Прикарпатський національний університет імені Василя Стефаника», м. Івано-Франківськ.

Keywords:

gender experience, socio-constructivist, gender identity, socio-cultural experien, interpretive schemas

Abstract

The article deals with the research methodology of gender individual experience. It isgrounded the necessity of finding a new methodology for the study of gender in the modern world.Outlines the role of the theory of social constructionism in interpreting gender it is groundedintroduction to the scientific analysis of the concept of "gender individual experience." Anindividual’s gender experience is interpreted as a socio-cultural construction that is the result ofmutual influence of human’s subjective and objective realities. This individual’s gender experienceis formed in the process of social interaction. There is a whole system of interpretive schemas andconcepts in the structure of human’s gender experience.

Published

2016-12-28

Issue

Section

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY