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		Sociology is the study of social rules and processes that bind, and separate people not only as individuals, but as members of associations, groups, and institutions.
		Sociology is interested in our behavior as social beings; thus the sociological field of interest ranges from the analysis of short contacts between anonymous individuals on the street to the study of global social processes.
		Sociology as a discipline emerged in the 19th century as an academic response to the challenge of modernity: as the world is becoming smaller and more integrated, people's experience of the world is increasingly atomized and dispersed.
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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Feminists
		Although feminists would argue that most sociology has been by men, about men, and for men, the problem of analysing men and masculinity as issues in their own right remained relatively neglected until (ironically) the advent of...
		Feminists generally consider women to be oppressed and in varying degrees alienated by a male-dominated society in which the use of language is anti-female.
		Feminists' crusade sparks holy war: a national conference designed to bring women closer to God by questioning traditional worship only caused greater alienation.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Feminists&StartAt=1 (781 words)

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		Feminists and others argue that there is still a long road ahead before equality of males and females is achieved, but there can be no doubts that major advances have occurred toward such equality.
		Feminist theory examines women in the social world and addresses issues of concern to women, focussing on these from the perspective, experiences, and viewpoint of women.
		For feminists, one of the major contradictions of liberal ideology was that it argued that all individuals should be considered equal, but the definition of who was an individual was very restrictive.
	uregina.ca /~gingrich/f1500.htm (6508 words)

	From Kaufman, L
		Feminist transformations of the paradigms of sociology have been contained in three major ways: by the limiting assumptions of functionalist conceptualisations of gender, by the inclusion of gender as a variable rather than as a central theoretical concept, and by the ghettoization of feminist insights, especially within Marxist sociology.
		Much of feminist sociology is cast in the language of roles ("sex roles," "the male role," "the female role") and emphasizes the process of "sex role socialisation." This approach to the analysis of gender retains its functionalist roots, emphasizing consensus, stability, and continuity (Thorne, 1978).
		Feminist transformations of knowledge are surely affected by factors such as the demographic composition of a given discipline, its internal organisation and structure of opportunities, the availability and forms of research funding, and the relation of the discipline to the making of public policy.
	www.academicarmageddon.co.uk /library/STATH.htm (7353 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Feminist
		criminology, feminist A self-conscious corrective to mainstream criminology and deviance theories (of various kinds), and one with the triple goals of critique, research, and reformulation of the field of inquiry.
		SEXISM A term used in feminist critiques of society and in general usage for: (1) Attitudes and behaviour based on traditional assumptions about, and stereotypes of, sexual roles in society and some GENDER usages in language.
		Feminist Mariologies: heteronomy/ subordination and the scandal of Christology.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Feminist (767 words)

	Feminist Metholodogy
		The application of feminist theory to methods and concepts of sociological investigation.
		Feminist research practice requires a critical stance towards existing methodology in the social sciences.
		While an attention to the responsibilities, rights and particular knowledge of those studied, and a recognition of gendered power relationships in the conduct and process of research may not be unique to feminist methodology; they are an essential component of it.
	www.sociologyprofessor.com /socialtheories/feminist-methodology.php (104 words)

	Feminist Methods Argument
		The feminist view is that "rational" and "objective" (indeed positivist) Sociology was a male construct, and assumed male activity and leadership as the norm throughout society.
		When, as feminists claim, Sociology has for so long developed its work along the line of malestream questions, it becomes necessary to overturn the assumptions in such controlling questions and let women speak for themselves - so that this apparent bias is corrected.
		The feminist view is that it is wrong to exclude emotions in the pursuit of rationality.
	www.change.freeuk.com /learning/resmeth/feminist.html (630 words)

	Dorothy E. Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She has had immense impacts on sociology and many other disciplines including women's studies, psychology, and educational studies, as well as sub-fields of sociology including feminist theory, family studies, and methodology.
		In recognition of her contributions in "transformation of sociology", and for extending boundaries of "feminist standpoint theory" to "include race, class, and gender", Dr. Smith received numerous awards from American Sociological Association, including the American Sociological Association's Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award (1999) and the Jessie Bernard Award for Feminist Sociology (1993).
		In recognition of her scholarship, she also received two awards from the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association: the Outstanding Contribution Award (1990) and the John Porter Award for The Everyday is Problematic (1990).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dorothy_E._Smith (218 words)

	Feminist Social Theory
		As a result, feminist theories move well beyond the issue of women themselves, and a feminist sociology can point the way toward a more creative and emancipatory form of sociology for everyone, and can be particularly useful for people who are in oppressed or subordinate situations.
		Perhaps the first concern of feminist sociology is to recognize women as full-fledged social actors in the social world.
		A second overriding concern of feminist sociology is to recognize the difference between biology and the social – the difference usually associated with sex (as biologically ascribed) and gender (as socially constructed).
	leroy.cc.uregina.ca /~gingrich/319m1706.htm (3944 words)

	Reflexivity is a feminist issue
		Feminist sociological research methodologies are based on women's lived experiences in patriarchy, both researched and researcher's, on gender as socially constructed and historically specific, and on a political commitment to the emancipation of women.
		Feminist sociologists who reject the binaries of theory and practice, objective and subjective, and researcher and researched, do so because they believe that knowing is a political process (Ramazagnolu 1992: 210), and that these binaries encourage an elitist sociology which cannot produce ways of knowing which avoid subordination (Williams 1993: 582).
		Feminists should use any and every research method as long as written accounts of feminist research locate the feminist researcher within her research as an essential feature of what is feminist about it.
	www.iol.ie /~mazzoldi/toolsforchange/postmet/feminist.html (4443 words)

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		The term 'sociology of women's education' was coined by Madeleine Arnot (then writing as McDonald, 1980) to refer to feminist scholarship within the sociology of education.
		Some such feminist arguments were influenced by theoretical shifts within the wider, and 'overlapping', disciplines of the sociology of education and curriculum theory.
		Drawing on a feminist reading of key education policy texts, as well as other women's life-histories and empirical research (Middleton, 1987a), I show how, as children of the post-World War II baby boom, we were members of the first generation to be promised equality of opportunity in education.
	www.aare.edu.au /92pap/midds92010.txt (7104 words)

	Liz Stanley: A Child of Its Time
		The blame is placed on sociology's vulnerability to unmediated pressures from the external world, and specifically to the "political" invasion born of the struggles of the 1960s and 1970s' (Burawoy, 2004: 1612).
		The existence of feminist sociology is of course linked with the feminisation of the discipline in its staffing and student composition, for without this women would still be as few and far between in sociology as appears from, say, Gouldner's relentless emphasis on men with occasional in passing annoying references to their wives or "mistresses".
		Feminist sociology is a means of having it all, of being inside and helping remake what is its own, while hybridically drawing on "other" ideas as part of its armoury for doing so.
	www.socresonline.org.uk /10/3/stanley.html (8101 words)

	Dorothy E. Smith: Voice, Standpoint and Power - Boston College
		Smith, who received her doctorate from the University of California at Berkley in 1963, is currently professor emerita in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, at the University of Toronto.
		Her work continues to profoundly impact many sub-fields of sociology including feminist theory and methodology, sociology of knowledge, ethnography, organizational studies, and family studies and finds relevance in such disciplines as women's studies, psychology, and educational studies.
		Echoes of Smith's emphasis on the importance of dialogue, reflexivity, and relationality in the context of knowledge building are found in feminist theory and methodology and cultural studies.
	www.bc.edu /schools/cas/sociology/vss/smith (1504 words)

	JoHLSTE Online
		Whilst much of the research referred to in the feminist sociology of education literature is based on schools, and has been undertaken by researchers employed by universities, research into higher education is usually undertaken by those already employed within higher education.
		As feminists engaging in the sociology of higher education, we are locked within our own 'insider outsider' identity as we seek to critique the very world of which we are a part (Raymond, 1986:233).
		The feminist sociology of higher education literature reveals that much of the research has been distributive rather than relational in nature and has focused on the employment and career progression patterns of women academics rather than the micro-structures or cultures that inform such patterns.
	www.hlst.ltsn.ac.uk /Johlste/vol2no1/academic/0034.html (5653 words)

	Department of Sociology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		My research adventures across natures and cultures range from applications of feminist pedagogy and theory in science curriculum to highlighting the invisible factors that shape the interconnections between nature and culture, or in Evelyn Fox Keller's words, how nature and culture "interact in the production of scientific [and social] knowledge" (1987, 90).
		Feminist science studies has convinced me of the transdisciplinary nature of knowledge and the necessity of actively establishing relationships between the social and natural sciences through collaborative intellectual projects.
		Feminist science studies challenges institutional power and creates possibilities to transgress the inequities inherent in how institutional power is enacted, not only within the confines of the university, but as a force in larger socio-political structures.
	www.cas.usf.edu /sociology/mayberry.htm (837 words)

	Boundaries and Silences in a Post-Feminist Sociology Sociology of Religion - Find Articles
		In the 1980s, in that part of the Princeton sociology department that I experienced directly, feminism was taken for granted in a way that 1 encountered as positive.
		But instead of asking feminist questions as a matter of course, post-feminism incorporates some of the insights about social life and power arrangements of feminist discourse without making them an explicit focus of analysis and debate.
		In this kind of environment, post-feminism confronts the young feminist as something of a briar patch to be negotiated with care.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0SOR/is_4_61/ai_69494362 (729 words)

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		Radical feminists who are not particularly impressed with Marxism as an equal theoretical partner have had difficulty asserting the distinctive existence of their theory independent from Marxism and its feminism-incorporative stepchildren.
		Although socialist feminists continually claim that they are trying to unite the theories as equally relevant and important social paradigms, it remains largely true that feminist perspectives are shoved into Marxist frameworks and called socialist feminism, but when the opposite reconciliation is proposed, the results is invariably called radical feminism instead.
		Feminists have a tradition of disinterest in divisions and barriers and boundaries if those distinctions serve to separate women from women, and many feminists therefore have come to resent or reject the overuse of these analytical distinctions between types of feminism (Eisenstein 1983).
	home.earthlink.net /~ahunter/RFvSoc/conflict.html (1470 words)

	Department of Sociology, University of California Berkeley
		Her work focuses on the sociology of gender; feminist theory; the sociology of age relations, childhood, and families; and ethnographic methods.
		She is the U.S. Editor of Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research and the outgoing Chair of the American Sociological Association Section on the Sociology of Children and Youth.
		She is the author of Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School (Rutgers, 1993) and co-editor of Feminist Sociology: Life Histories of a Movement (Rutgers, 1997), Rethinking the Family: Some Feminist Questions (Northeastern University Press, 1992); Language, Gender and Society (Newbury House, 1983), and Language and Sex: Difference and Dominance (Newbury House, 1975).
	sociology.berkeley.edu /faculty/thorne (251 words)

	Knowing a Society from Within: A Woman's Standpoint - Dorothy Smith
		Sociology's conceptual procedures, methods, and relevances organize its subject matter from a determinate position in society.
		A sociology worked on in this way would not have as its objective a body of knowledge subsisting in and of itself; inquiry would not be justified by its contribution to the heaping up of such a body.
		Sociology does not provide for seeing that there are always two terms to this relation.
	www.culturalstudies.net /woman.html (1307 words)

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		UCLA Sociology Department Spring 1992 -- Special Topics in Sociology Graduate Student Seminar - Soc596 (for information contact Christine Morton, UCLA Sociology Dept, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024; email: morton@soc.sscnet.ucla.edu) FEMINIST THEORY This course is meant to provide an introductory survey of feminist theory for graduate students in sociology.
		The intention is to familiarize students with the main currents in contemporary feminist theory and the origins and evolution of feminist thought over the last quarter century.
		Feminist Theory and the Construction of Knowledge (Cornell, 1991) Duran, Jane, Toward a Feminist Epistemology, (Rowman, 1991) !!!
	www.mith2.umd.edu /WomensStudies/Syllabi/Theory/theory3-feminist (1536 words)

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		Our goal is to understand, at least in part, the recent explosion of feminist social theories that have transformed understandings of power, language/representation, dynamics of oppression and privilege, capitalism, the body, colonialism, sexuality, culture, the nation, the human subject, science and technology, and the politics of producing knowledge itself.
		Specifically feminist postcolonial and transnational scholars are concerned with not only the racialization and nationalization but also the sexualization of bodies and subjectivities in cross-national or global formations of power.
		Feminists immediately took issue with the absence of the subjective experience of illness, the inattention to emotions and social movements, and more recently a lack of integration of culture and issues of power.
	www.bsos.umd.edu /socy/grad/syllabi/socy699d_spr04_mamo.doc (3216 words)

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		It also examines current feminist theoretical debates (e.g., on the relationship between class, gender and race/ethnicity, on identity politics and subjectivity) and their relevance for feminist sociology.
		Feminist theory illuminates blind spots in sociological theories and it is important to learn how sociological theorizing has been affected and what new directions have been opened in the process of doing what one might call feminist sociological theory.
		The second goal is to examine current debates in feminist theory originating from new theoretical developments (postmodernism), politics (identity politics) and existing divisions among women engaged in developing feminist theory (class, race/ethnicity, sexual preference, national origin, professional training, etc).
	www.colorado.edu /Sociology/gimenez/courses/5006.html (781 words)

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	Boundaries and Silences in a Post-Feminist Sociology Sociology of Religion - Find Articles
		In the 1980s, in that part of the Princeton sociology department that I experienced directly, feminism was taken for granted in a way that 1 encountered as positive.
		But instead of asking feminist questions as a matter of course, post-feminism incorporates some of the insights about social life and power arrangements of feminist discourse without making them an explicit focus of analysis and debate.
		In this kind of environment, post-feminism confronts the young feminist as something of a briar patch to be negotiated with care.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0SOR/is_4_61/ai_69494362 (713 words)

	Sociology Books
		Mario Diani is Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Trento.
		The Handbook of Economic Sociology, Second Edition is the definitive resource on what continues to be one of the leading edges of sociology and one of its most important interdisciplinary adventures.
		Instead of seeing the two disciplines in antagonistic terms, it is time to recognize that sociology and economics are in fact part of a single discipline, the object of which is the analysis of social facts, of which economic transactions are in the end merely one aspect.
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