Рубрика: SOCIOLOGY
RE-FOCUSING ON CLASSICAL TOPICS
I have chosen one example to illustrate this heading: the interrelated topics of women’s social mobility and the proper way to construct class systems in modern Britain. Other examples, could, no doubt, be chosen, but the sociology of class, stratification and social mobility is a particularly central one in the UK. The feminist sociologists (women […]
Leisure and time
Feminist sociologists opened up research on control over time. Rosemary Deem’s (1986) pioneering research into the leisure activities of married women in Milton Keynes showed that men expected and took time for their leisure, whereas women only had time for their leisure if their male partner supported the activity. The dynamics of the households were […]
’emotional’ work
Childbirth
Food, drink and cooking
The dark sides of the family
One of the major achievements of feminist sociology has been the recognition of, and research on, the dark sides of family life (Dobash and Dobash, 1992, 1998). The re-discovery of domestic violence in the 1970s, (it had been a feminist campaign topic in the 1870s) and the establishment of refuges for battered women by feminist […]
Housework
Crompton (2000) has developed the research on caring in studies of how employment and caring are interrelated in contemporary Europe. Her quotes from women in France, Norway and Britain show doctors and bankers planning their work lives in ways that help them deal with guilt. The same issues of responsibility and guilt predominating in women’s […]
NEW TOPICS
There is no doubt that feminist sociology has opened up new topics. If, for example we take the sociology of families and households, there are at least nine ‘new’ topics opened up by feminist sociologists, which aim at unpicking and doing high quality research upon ‘marriage’, ‘family’, ‘household’, and ‘the private’. They provide us with […]
TENURED POSTS IN TOP SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENTS
In 1970, the USA had 2,525 higher education institutions (HEIs) with 450,000 academic staff, of whom 23 per cent were women. By 1993 there were 3,632 HEIs, with 933,373 staff, 38.7 per cent female. Of the 554,903 full-time staff, 33.5 per cent were female. Between 1975 and 1993 women as a percentage of full professors […]