SOC 2700 Study Guide - Final Guide: Intersectionality, Left Realism, Marxist Feminism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2700
• Professor: Stephanie Howells

Document Summary

With life-course theory, these are the significant life events that lead to role changes, such as graduation, marriage, or the birth of a child. This occurs when violators are shamed into knowing that what they did is wrong but are nonetheless allowed reentry into the conforming group. This bond constitutes the acknowledgment of society rules of being fair. This type of feminism attempts to merge radical and marxist feminism by examining various connections between patriarchy and capitalism that lead men to crime and women to subordination. This hypothesis proposes that predominantly male police, prosecutors and judges have a traditional attitude toward women and extend this to women offenders, treating them more leniently than men. This is the primary purpose of criminal law. The amount to control to which an individual is subject, relative to the amount of control he or she can exercise, determines the probability of deviance occurring as well as the type of deviance likely to occur.