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Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots Ch 8

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Which of these terms does not describe feminist theory? Specific Wide-ranging Interdisciplinary Woman-centered   show
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How is feminist theory woman-centered?   show
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show From a marginal variable in sociology to a major field of study.  
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show Feminist activism  
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What did the first-wave feminist activism center on?   show
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show Translating basic political rights into tangible economic and social equality with men.  
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show TRUE  
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show Blind to their presence.  
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What is feminism's second basic question?   show
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show Gender  
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Nearly all feminist theories agree on what about gender?   show
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show How can we change and improve the social world to make it a more just place for all people?  
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show The commitment to social transformation in the interest of justice.  
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show Feminism, Marxism, neo-Marxism, and those developed by racial, ethnic and sexual minorities and in postcolonial societies.  
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What is the fourth question of feminism?   show
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What profoundly affects the invisibility, inequality, and role differences in relation to men that generally characterize women's lives?   show
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show What we have taken as universal and absolute knowledge is in fact knowledge derived from the experiences of a powerful section of society, men as masters.  
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Feminism does what two things to established knowledge?   show
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show By showing their masculinist bias and the gender politics framing and informing them.  
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show Whether there is a single woman's standpoint (as positioned by other marginalized groups). Validity of the binary understanding of gender as masculine or feminine. The reality of gender, of individual self & hence standpoint of women (postmodernism).  
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show Harriet Martineau  
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What was the first methods text in sociology, and who drafted it?   show
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Who, along with Auguste Comte, is recognized as one of the first inventors of sociology?   show
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What do we call the process by which women can be major players in the creation and development of a field and yet have their contributions remain invisible?   show
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Name some of the women who formed a broad and connected network of social reformers who were developing pioneering sociological theories at the same time as Durkheim, Weber, Simmel and Mead were creating the academic field of sociology?   show
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show Critical rather than descriptive or explanatory analysis Emphasis that women's experience, lives and works are equal in importance to men's.  
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What were the second two chief hallmarks of the foremothers of sociological theory?   show
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Domination is the power relation in which the superordinate make the subordinate what?   show
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show Nature of and remedy for the inequality on which they focused.  
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show Their activism  
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show Aim to reform the gender system by equalizing opportunities for men & women. Aim to resist the gender system by actively promoting the value of women's ways of being. Rebel against the gender system by challenging the existence of gender itself.  
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What approach do liberal and socialist theories take to gender inequality according to Lorber?   show
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What approach do radical, cultural and psychoanalytic theories take to gender inequality according to Lorber?   show
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show Rebel  
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show What about women?  
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What 4 basic answers does Ritzer map out for classifying feminism theories?   show
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show From women's oppression to oppressive practices and structures that impact the lives of the majority of the world's population - men and women.  
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What major line of division has developed between interpretations of feminism?   show
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show Problematizing gender.  
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What is an example of a feminist theory that is currently dormant?   show
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show Ethnomethodology and intersectionality  
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show Cultural feminism Phenomenological Institutional Interactional/ethnomethodological  
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show Liberal feminism Rational choice feminism  
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According to Ritzer's typology, what feminist theories fall in the gender oppression category?   show
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According to Ritzer's typology, what feminist theories fall in the structural oppression category?   show
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What do theories of gender difference have to confront?   show
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show Biology, the needs of social institutions for men and women to perform different roles, the mental need of humans to think in categorical terms of "Otherness" as part of defining the self.  
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show The social value of women's distinctive ways of being that are different from men.  
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What qualities did theorists such as Margaret Fuller, Frances Wilard, Jane Addams, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman argue that the governing of society needs that women provide?   show
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What is the best known contemporary work on cultural feminism?   show
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What is andocentric   show
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show Women are marginalized as "Other" in a male created culture.  
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What is a feminist theory of difference that sees people born into a world shaped by a culture that reflects male experience and ignores or marginalizes women's experiences?   show
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TRUE or FALSE - According to existential or phenomenological feminism, women do not internalize the "otherness" assigned by males?   show
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What critical questions does existential or phenomenological feminism ask?   show
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show When they develop a consciousness and culture that is uniquely theirs.  
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show Feminist institutional theory  
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show Feminist interactionist theory  
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