Sociology

speculation and Methods

A Level Sociology
A Resource-Based
Learning Approach
Theory and Methods
Unit M4: Feminism

Unit M4: Feminism

Theory and Methods

Feminism

Introduction
The main purpose of these Notes is to admit a basic overview of different
sociological perspectives. Each set of notes is organize around three basic themes:
1. A outline overview of the perspective.
2. An line of the basic principles on which each perspective is based.
3. A brief evaluation of the perspective.
These Notes ar, therefore, intended to wait on as a public introduction to different
perspectives, although they may also be used as revision notes.
Feminist Perspectives
The following is intended mainly as a sort of theoretical overview of various
Feminist perspectives and we can apologise this by way of noting two points:
1. Firstly, sociologists have been - and still are - criticised for what Feminists have
called their malestream bias. That is, the general preoccupation with explaining
male experiences in and of the social orb to the almost total exclusion (until very
recently at least) of feminine experiences.




From a Feminist viewpoint, women tend to be discussed within Sociology (as
elsewhere) as appendages of men (as you may have already discovered if youve
canvas areas of the syllabus such as Work and Leisure, kindly Stratification and,
especially, Deviance). Feminist perspectives not only serve to redress this male
bias, they also offer a precious contribution to the development of sociological
theory and knowledge.
The Radical Feminist Kate Millett ( cozy Politics, 1971), for example, was
particularly scathing when she argued:
...sociology examines the status quo, calls it phenomena, and pretends to
take no stand on it, thereby avoiding the necessity to comment on the
invidious character of the relationship between the sex groups it studies.
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