SOCI 2040 Lecture 17: Week 17 Smith and Feminist sociology.docx
21 Apr 2015
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Key words for next week: smith and the situation of women. Institutional ethnography: mental illness and male bias, psychiatry as form of objective knowledge, critique of mainstream sociology. Mainstream sociology: how sociology has been practice by many people i. Male bias: favours men"s experiences and male- based forms of knowledge (neutral and general) Most sociology up until today, that most sociology expeierience by man has hold all of humanity. This male based form of sociology only what happens in the public sphere (that which takes place inside that home). The problem that in the result of this that mainstream sociology does not share the experience of women. Women play two roles: one, the public sphere is the outside the home (male role), two the domestic sphere inside the home; household work, child care. Not just showing only women do the work in the house but they do the majority.
