SOC102H1 Chapter 4: Chapter 4 notes of Social Problems book.
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Introduction: sex the biological distinction between male and female is a universal and ancient battle of social differentiation. In societies with low fertility, this distinction fades in importance because women spent more time as breadwinners: societies differ in the extent and ways they dramatize this sex-based difference, some enlarge these differences, while others diminish them. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, women became more visible as thinkers about social matters, especially poverty: especially obvious among the fabians in england, where beatrice worked along with her husband, The third feminist wave embraced racial and class diversity and accommodated differences in nationality and cultural background. The failure by major male sociologists and theorists to contribute to gender issues tells us something about the connection between social structure and the propagation of knowledge: only the powerful get noticed, studied, and discussed www. notesolution. com.
