A Quote by Carol Gilligan

I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.

Carol Gilligan

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Carol Gilligan
American - Psychologist
Born: November 28, 1936

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

Judith Butler

A core plank of left-wing academic thought is that gender and race are 'socially constructed.'

Heather Mac Donald

Whether we like it or not, gender differences matter in a combat situation.

Pete Hegseth

The politics of transgender identity are really complicated. And the debate over how much of gender is biological and how much of it is socially constructed is a very complex debate.

Jess Row

The human organism is thus still developing biologically while already standing in a relationship to its environmont. In other words, the process of becoming man takes place in an interrelationship with an environment. (...) From the moment of birth, man's organismic development, and indeed a large part of his biological being as such, are subjected to continuing socially determined interference.

Peter L. Berger

Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results. If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called 'sex' is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.

Judith Butler

What makes us most human is not whether we are or are not biologically driven and determined beings; but, rather, how we respond to this relative truth. The conscious choices we make in related to the dynamic, psychobiological forces of the daimonic define our humanity.

Stephen A. Diamond

Therefore, this is a question of whether we, humans, can change our culture and begin to truly care for all Creation, nurture all Life and thereby avert our own extinction. As such, this is a deeply spiritual issue and we can begin to act today, regardless of age. But the good news is that this is not a question of whether we will change our culture, but a question of when.

Shailesh Rao

[Marx] explicates ideology as socially determined, [Stirner] as psychologically determined: both accuse it of remaining oblivious to its own determinations.

John Carroll

There are those who believe that the existence of gender differences at very early ages is evidence that these differences are biological or generic in origin.

Deborah Tannen

An agnostic position is one that leaves open the question whether there exists a god or gods, professing to find such a question unanswered or unanswerable. For the atheist, the question has been answered, and in the negative.

Jaroslav Pelikan

I would say that it's very difficult to personally construct your gender. I think a lot of it is socially constructed. If you look at The New York Times' coverage of trans children, some of them were as young as four years old. One said, "I see my daddy in the woodshed, and that's where I'd rather be than in the kitchen." That to me doesn't ring as somebody who is trans, it rings as someone who has grown up with a narrow view.

Abigail Tarttelin

Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.

Clifford Geertz

Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.

Pierre Curie

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.

Sonia Sotomayor

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences...our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.

Sonia Sotomayor

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