SA 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Swiss Army Knife, Thomas Bottomore, Standpoint Theory
21 Sep 2016
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Famous work: asylums; the presentation of the self in everyday life. Introduced the dramaturgical approach to studying social interaction. Founding member of the chicago school of sociology. Worked with booker t. washington at the tuskegee institute in alabama. Black american sociologist of race, economics, and culture. Also wrote newspaper articles, novels, personal essays, short stories, and poems. Famous work: the souls of black folk 1903. Started one of the first sociology programs in the usa at atlanta university. Feminist theory addresses issues of systematic discrimination against women. You do not need to be a woman to be a feminist or to use feminist theory. Harriet martineau was one of the first feminist sociologists. Dorothy smith 1926 canadian stand point theory. She developed standpoint theory: standpoint theory: involves theorizing from her own position as a woman. She challenged sociology"s preferred objective as opposed to subjective stance in research and writing.
