SOCI 3251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Harriet Martineau, Standpoint Theory, Feminist Theory
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Wrote life in the sickroom advocating that a patient should have rights and doctors should listen to patients. Subtext is that people should listen to women in regards to their own bodies. Her sociology (or a science of society) observes. Morals: society"s collective ideas of prescribed (ideals) and proscribed (laws) behavior. Manners: the patterns of action and order in society. These 2 represent the theory and method at the heart of her sociology. Morals are collectively shared values or consciousness (in a durkheimian sense but said before durkheim) Manners are forms of social organization that materialize those morals. Trace the circumstances under which the relationship arises. Generalize about what qualities of morals and manners are fixed and essential in society. Note and explain anomalies or contradictions between action and meaning. Have to understand what you look like will affect your interaction.
