SOCY 3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Ideal Type, Emotional Labor, Standpoint Feminism
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Hartstock/ hochschild: 2nd wave feminists- emphasis on labor, form of work access to labor, division of labor, industrialization and liberal socialist politics at the time, both things influenced by. Marx- marxist analysis critical to 2nd wave: political/social climate of the time, women entering work force in large numbers, push for civil rights focus on passage of equal rights act guaranteeing social equality regardless of sex. Hartstock: standpoint feminism grounded in marxism. Women"s standpoint allows women to understand/ see the world in ways that challenge conventional wisdom. Seen as essential to examining the systematic oppression in a society that standpoint feminists say devalue women"s knowledge. Because women"s lives/roles are significantly different from men"s women hold different types of knowledge. Epistemology grows from material life: material life structures their understanding of inequality. Using weber"s understanding of ideal type (methodological contribution) Hartstock doing it for the sexual division of labor generalizations pulled from the empirical world to study the abstract.
