SOC 3310 Study Guide - Heterosexuality, Normal Science, Gynaecology

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3310
• Professor: Reza Barmaki

Document Summary

Feminist theory differs from most sociological theories in that it is the work of an interdisciplinary and international community of scholars, artists, and activists. Feminist theory begins in a deceptively simple question: and what about the women? in other words, where are the women in any situation being investigated: over 40 years of posing this question has produced some generalizable answers. Where they are not, it is not because they lack ability or interest, but because there have been deliberate efforts to exclude them. Marxism, neo-marxism, and social theories being developed by racial and ethnic minorities and in postcolonial societies. Feminist theory deconstructs established systems of knowledge by showing their masculinsts bias and the gender politics framing and informing them. The theorists of structural functionalism, conflict theory, and neo-marxism world systems theory, all use the same analytic process in placing gender in their generalized theoretical account of large-scale social phenomena.