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Ritzer: Contemporary Sociological Theory Book Cover
Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots: The Basics
George Ritzer, University of Maryland

Modern Feminist Grand Theory

Internet Exercises

Exercise 1

Go to http://www.dsausa.org/youth/resources/socialist_feminism.html. Read the brief statement of the Young Democratic Socialists on socialist feminism and answer the following questions:

  1. What are the demands of socialist feminists?
  2. What unites all of these demands?
  3. What does a radical family policy presuppose?
  4. How would a radical labor policy affect the family, according to socialist feminists?

 

 

Exercise 2

Go to http://www2.pfeiffer.edu/~lridener/DSS/Addams/CULTFEM3.HTML. Read the discussion about Jane Addams and cultural feminism and answer the following questions:

  1. Did Jane Addams believe in a maternal instinct?
  2. Who were Addams’s intellectual influences and colleagues?
  3. How did Addams view women as compared to men?
  4. Who did Addams study?