Social Psychology Final Paper

The world now becomes a state of change or flux. Human beings act toward others and objects on the basis of the meanings that such things have for them but meanings are being continually constructed and modified through interaction. The fundamental approach is simple put: nothing is sexual but naming makes it so. Sexuality is a social construct learned in interaction with others. This is not to deny biological facts. It is simply to assert that things do not have sex meanings in their own right. They have to be bestowed upon them through sexual encounters. The mind has to define something as sexual before it is sexual in

Unlike sex, the history of sexuality is dependant upon society and limited by its language in order to be defined and understood.

Overall, even though the historical norm for sex has been between adult partners, sexual practices and attitudes has changed over the years to include hooking up, which has emerged as a pattern among society in the United States. Nevertheless, it can caused problems in today’s culture. Hooking up will eventually evolve into other sexual practices as the American culture changes in subsequent

Reality is not an objective thing that is imposed upon us, but is created by us. Reality does not exist externally but internally, as each individual or group interprets it, and is always changing. Due to these concepts sociologists often speak about the “social construction of reality” which is essential to understand when attempting to explain human social behavior. Since realty is the basis of people’s actions, W. I. Thomas states, “If people define situations as real, they are real in their consequences”. The “social construction of reality”, human social behavior and W. I. Thomas’s statement are three concepts that fit hand in hand and are important when trying to explain one another.

It’s all around us, a highly structured system depicting our everyday life. It’s what we are all a part of and isn’t something one can simply escape. It is society. The norms of society influence our religious beliefs, hair, and clothing choices and even our way of thinking. Society is what determines what is right or wrong. People tend to follow the rules of society in order to fit in. Often one doesn’t realize they are even doing it, as participating in the ways and expectations of society is a daily occurrence. After reading A Doll’s House and The Giver, it was brought to my attention that society is often controlling and corrupt. Most individuals are oblivious to the fact because they don’t know any other way.

Sexuality is socially constructed. Women’s sexuality and femininity is socially constructed and these constructs may be the sign of oppression, regulation and control. Sexuality and it’s origin, content, and political meaning has been an important concern in our society. The key is to understand that sexuality is socially constructed. We as women inherent properties which becomes sexual by the application of socially learned behaviors and meanings.

We have such a complex relationship with animals, we are the only species that keeps an animal as a pet, squeezes its tits for milk, then eats it! But if a girl fucks a horse! that’s weird. And on that note, thank you,

Sex has power. Sex has the capacity to change people’s self-experiences, transform relationships, and even challenge the societies in which we live. Sex sells. The history of advertising is rife with associating sex with the non-sexual, so people will purchase a product or way of life. As in the case of pornography and prostitution, sex sells itself. People will pay to have sex. People will pay to watch sex. People will pay to experience the fantasy of sex and then have sex by themselves. Sometimes, sex is treated like a secret that must be managed for the sake of propriety. In many parts of the world, woman can be physically punished for just the implication of sexuality. At other times, sex is treated as a self-evident, natural fact of human life. Magazines run articles discussing the top ten sexual techniques to make your lover have an orgasm. Sex happens when people like each other, and it even happens when they do not. Since sex can be many things to many people at many different times, any phenomenology of sex must begin by addressing the potential foundational elements of the experience. These elements must be common to a wide range of sexual experiences and encounters, be they heterosexual, homosexual, and everything in between and otherwise.

Reality, what is it? What defines it? And most importantly where is it? We accept that we live in the state of real existence daily and we do this through empiricism, or in other words we experience the world through our senses. The world presents a picture to us, one that can be felt, has a scent, leaves a taste in our mouth, and can be heard loud and clear. Or, at least it did. Our modernity, the very thing that is represented to us as the universal connector has falsely portrayed what is actually happening to the world. Technology has murdered reality in what will be known as the biggest show on earth, the spectacle of the

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” -Philip K. Dick

King (2009), points out that the nature of sexuality is dependent on how its accepted biological basis is interpreted at a particular time by a particular society.

Human sexuality plays a major role in everyone's life. Regardless, whether we are young or old, man or woman, American or Japanese, it is an integral part of what we do and who we are as a human species. Next to sleeping and eating, it seems that it is one of the most important drives we have to deal with as humans. That is, it takes up so much of our time in thought and behavior that it sometimes seems that every facet of our life revolves around this to a certain extent. Human sexual behavior is different from the sexual behavior of other animals, in that, it seems to be governed by a variety and interplay of different factors. That is, while "lower" animals or species are driven by a "force" to reproduce and therefore partake in sexual

Sexual identity is social and cultural. Society defines the different sexual categories and teaches us what characteristics these individuals and groups should display. The public labels these people and their behaviors as normal or abnormal—right or wrong. Through the years, heterosexuality, or an attraction to the opposite sex, has been viewed as right and normal according to society. It is evident that social institutions regulate and effect the sexuality that the population exhibition; for example, it is common for families to set gender norms, exhibiting a portrait of the standard of a man, woman, and child. Religions have rules about many aspects of sexuality, for example, the idea that homosexuality and sex outside of marriage is wrong; as well as the media and medical community influences sexuality (Seidman, Fischer, and Meeks, 2006). For example, it is still a common cultural belief that a women’s virginity must be protected for love and be cherished—which can contribute to the new trend of selling your virginity for thousands to millions of dollars: a woman’s virginity is sacred and pure, therefore fetishized. This belief can lead to women believe they are devalued as they accept more sexual partners. In fact, that is very commonly taught in sexual education around the United States; sexual active girls being compared to a chewed piece of gum or a loose, dirty shoe. Men, however, are on the opposite end of the same scale. They wish to lose their virginity as soon

Throughout history, humanity has depended on nonhuman beings for research tools, companionship, entertainment and resources including, but not limited to, clothing, food, transportation, etc. There is no argument that animals enrich human lives and society would be unable to function properly without the presence of nonhuman beings. The sociology of

Now you are ALL. Not just a part of you. You are what you like and what you don’t like at yourself. You are complete. The sky, the earth and everything visible and invisible lives inside your being, but your logical mind can’t understand all these!