SOCIOL 3488 Study Guide - Final Guide: Norbert Elias, Randall Collins, Feminist Theory

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Second wave: gain economic and social equality. Third wave: include marginalized groups: what distinguishes essentialist theory, institutional theory, and interactionist. Differences in genders are immutable because: biology, need to fill different roles by social institutions, need to produce other as part of self-definition. Differences in gender due to different roles in institutional settings. Oppression by men and acceptance by women is rooted in emotions, desires, fears, neuroses, pathologies, etc. (rejects rational calculation) Vectors of oppression include gender, age, class, sexual orientation, etc. Not additive (gender + class + age) but intersecting in unique configurations. Marx = alienation caused by class struggle. Weber = individual experience in iron cage of modernity. Simmel = interplay of objective (macro) and subjective (micro) culture. Macro = order is created by external, collective phenomena. Micro = order is created by internal, individual negotiation. Action occurs on a continuum between materialist and idealist. Focuses on 1) interactions, 2) chains of interactions, and 3) marketplaces of interactions.