SOC 105 Study Guide - The Colbert Report, Radical Feminism, Ascribed Status

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 105
• Professor: Carmen Schifellite

Document Summary

Feminist perspectives attempt to explain, change and understand the ways in which gender socially organizes our lives to produce inequality between men and women. Liberal feminism believes that women can achieve equality through extending their opportunities for education and employment. Marxist feminism believes that the capitalism system is at fault for the inequality of women. Socialist feminism believes that gender relations are shaped by patriarchy and capitalism. Radical feminism believes that the root of all oppression lies in patriarchy. Transnational feminism believes that capitalism and systems of political power suppress women all around the world. The functionalists view media as an agent of socialization, an enforcer of norms, a conferrer of status, and promoters of consumption, with an important dysfunction known as the narcotizing effect. The narcotizing effect is the theory that because the media provides massive amounts of coverage, the public becomes numb and fails to act on the info.