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gender as a social structure: a standalone construct

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Gender studies

a theory that gender operates at individual, interactional and institutional levels of a social structure that both constrains and enables action.

In gender studies, gender as a social structure refers to a theory that gender operates at individual, interactional and institutional levels of a social structure that both constrains and enables action. This meaning comes from Risman (2004) in Gender & Society.[1]

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References

Risman, B. J. (2004). Gender As a Social Structure. Gender & Society, 18(4), 429-450. https://doi.org/10.1177/0891243204265349

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