SA 150 Lecture 2: SA Lecture 2 101% on final
20 Sep 2018
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Founding member of the chicago school of sociology. Thought of the city as a laboratory. Worked with booker t. washington at the tuskegee institute in alabama. Black american sociologist of race, economics, and culture. Also wrote newspaper articles, novels, personal essays, short stories, and poems. Famous work: the souls of black folk (1903) Started one of the rst sociology programs in the usa at atlanta university. Feminist theory addresses issues of systematic discrimination against women. You do not need to be a woman to be a feminist or to use feminist theory. Harriet martineau was one of the rst feminist sociologists. She developed standpoint theory, which involves theorizing from her own position as a woman. She challenged sociology"s preferred objective as opposed to subjective stance in research and writing. Affects the kinds of questions you"re going to ask and how you go about. Standpoint theory considers other subject positions it.
