Eickers and Prinz update social constructionism by refusing the habitual split between cultural meaning and bodily response. Their central claim is that social norms do not merely label pre-existing affective states but materialise through embodiment, shaping whose bodies may display which emotions, in which situations, and with what consequences. The paper therefore shifts construction from an exclusively conceptual register toward a socio-corporeal account in which norms and physiology are mutually implicated. Methodologically, it is synthetic and reconstructive: transitory role theory and Conceptual Act Theory are assessed alongside work from sociology, anthropology and queer theory to identify what earlier constructionisms leave underdeveloped. The resulting model is especially important for debates on emotional injustice because it makes differential permission, recognition and legibility part of emotion theory itself. Its wider bridge is to feminist materialism and social ontology: the body appears neither as a natural substrate beneath culture nor as pure discourse, but as a historically patterned site where social force becomes affectively real.