Cultural capital and personal adventure in the construction of gender identity

Abstract

This paper highlights how the construction of gender identity is a personal task that develops throughout life and in various scenarios in whit it takes place. The influence of traditional cultural heritage in these scenarios (family, school, community…) is intense and manifest environmental way and through direct intentional interventions. The influence is polarized between the ends of the male female with a cleary differentiating and discriminatory toward the feminine genre. They forget or underestimate the feeling and difficulties of each person and their life trajectories.For the realization of this work we reflect on recent research in the field of equality in relation to the traditional line of research on the influence of cultural capital on the formation of personality. The paper concludes by considering that innovation in the construction of gender role involves breaking with such limiting pressure and bet on the progress toward freedom and equality between human beings.

Keywords

• identidad de género
• cultura social
• familia
• escuela
• orientación laboral
• iniciativa personal