SOC285 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Darwinism, Subjectivism, Ethnography
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Expect for the last category feminism, most of the theorists are men, women never had much say until after world war 2 cause that"s when they could get an education, prior only rich women could. When women could write and be educated feminism arose. Sociological theory was invented in the western world and in only a few countries. There is also a small canadian contribution, dorthey smith was born in. Britain but works and lives in canada, firestone was born in canada and became u. s. citizen. This means sociology was born in western europe. Its was transplanted to north america, in the. 19th century, sociology was at first the work of individual pioneers, they developed their own ideas. They established the 4 basic schools of thought followed by an expansion, the 4 schools of thought expanded differently after being taken by different people. 20 and 21st century they expanded and finalized.