[SOCIOL 2S06] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (39 pages long!)

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Is a wide ranging system of ideas about social life and human experience developed from a women centered perspective: women centered- because is examines the situations and experiences of women. It adopts the standpoint of women. b: the development of feminist theory (activity)- 3 ways it can be described, the first wave of feminism- existed between 1830s-1920s a. a. comte (1830), weber (1920) when these men died. The theoretical ideas that came to dominate sociology would be developed by three white european men a. b. Marx, durkheim, weber a. c. during that timeframe early feminist was developing and yet they were overlooked. Early feminist are among the classical theorist. a. d. first wave was the struggle of women for political rights (vote). In a number of countries women finally was able to vote by 1920s. (the end point of the first wave). a. e. Women of white women and heterosexual: the temporary decline of feminism, 1920s to 1960s less feminist activity was being done.