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SOC 402: Sociological Theory Feminist Theory. Intellectual Influences (varied) Marx and Engels Freud (reaction to) Neo-Marxist (especially critical) Neofunctionalist.

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1 SOC 402: Sociological Theory Feminist Theory

2 Intellectual Influences (varied) Marx and Engels Freud (reaction to) Neo-Marxist (especially critical) Neofunctionalist (especially conflict) exchange theory symbolic interactionism phenomenological poststructural feminist influence: where are the women?

3 Socio-historical Context Feminist History/history of feminism 18th C. bourgeois revolutions/liberal reforms 19th C. abolition, reform, suffrage 20th C. radical protest, socialism and progressivism 1920: women's suffrage http://americancivilwar.com/women/Womens_Su ffrage/womens_suffrage_timeline.html http://americancivilwar.com/women/Womens_Su ffrage/womens_suffrage_timeline.html 1957: The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir 1959: The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan since 1970, women in sociology

4 Perspective Perspective: mostly liberal vs. radical –Structural/positivist: liberal and radical –critical/Hegelian: radical –Pragmatist: social construction (Symbolic Interactionis): liberal –Phenomenological: liberal? –Postmodern: purports to being radical –Psycho-analytical, behavioral:liberal?

5 Focus Liberal: Work and Home (with politics) Radical feminist: more cultural: Patriarchy Marxist: more economic Socialist: more varied but particularly social, economic and political Interactionist/Phenomenological: more social/cultural

6 Feminist Models focus on women: structure and experience - macro and micro - compared to, in relation to men - gender differences - gender inequality - gender oppression - why/how are women: different, unequal, oppressed?

7 Man as oppressor Woman as oppressed conflict gender inequality male domination - women's movement - + gender interest gender knowlege conflict patriarchal reality gender consciousness experienced reality other gender negotiation gender role gender experience

8 Phenomenology Essential Reality Taken for Granted RealityExperienced Reality Consciousness typification Social construction accounts interpretation (Berger and Luckmann) (Garfinkel) (Husserl)


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