Culture’s Child: A Social Constructionist Model

Abstract

The predominant social model of sexual attraction today is a collection of theories called social constructionism. To fully describe the model’s various and complex tenets and implications, I begin by examining a radical version of the theory in the first section of this chapter. In the later part of this chapter and again in Chapter 5, I describe a less ideological, middle ground social constructionism (Vance, 1991).