@article{Zahrai_2014, title={An Individual’s Gender Experience: Socio-Cultural Context}, volume={1}, url={https://journals.pnu.edu.ua/index.php/jpnu/article/view/2302}, DOI={10.15330/jpnu.1.4.115-122}, abstractNote={<p><span class="fontstyle0">The article highlights gender experience development in an individual. The sociocultural context of gender identity development is addressed from the perspective of social<br>constructivism. The author describes the mechanism of constructing gender schemas and norms<br>which reflect socio-cultural experience. Drawing on poststructuralist ideas, the author explores<br>cultural texts which encode assumptions and concepts that serve as schemas for perceiving and<br>understanding reality, for reflecting the processes of an individual’s development as a discursive<br>being in his or her interpretation of socio-cultural experience. The article also analyzes masculinity<br>and femininity models shaped by socio-cultural schemas and explores gender role expectations<br>among the young people in Ukraine</span> </p&gt;}, number={4}, journal={Journal of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University}, author={Zahrai, Larysa}, year={2014}, month={Dec.}, pages={115-122} }