This summary sheet lists sociologists that discuss gender inequality under a range of theoretical perspectives such as Marxism, Weberian and a range of feminist perspectives. This information applies mainly to OCR paper two, in particular the 40 marker. However these sociologists can apply to other...
GENDER INEQUALITIES - THEORY REVISION
FUNCTIONALISM NEW RIGHT MARXIST RADICAL MARXIST LIBERAL BLACK FEMINIST
FEMINIST FEMINIST FEMINIST
MURDOCK - MURRAY - ENGLES - STANKO - FEELEY - OAKLEY - BREWER -
-women are located -rising birth rates -women’s -sexual harrassment -women -manipulation- -triple systems theory-
in the home because outside of subordinate in the workplace emerge from encouragement of class, race and gender
family life
of their biological marriage, crime position is a result used to keep women gender combine to create
preconditioned
function of bearing and youth of the ownership in their place to accept their appropriate multiple sources of
children and their unemployment is of private -men use power to place in the behaviour e.g. girls deprivation and
physique meant they the underclass’ property and the protect their capitalist dressed in fem inequality; black
are less able to irresponsible development of position hierarchy. way women suffer
perform strenuous attitude nuclear family -bar and secretarial Family -canalisation- disadvantage as black
designed to
tasks e.g. building -advocates nuclear along with it work sexualised and teach passivity channelling women who are
-gender division of family -exploiter - not taken seriously not rebellion children towards working class
labour evident in all -blames single exploited for promotion -socialises toys/activities seen
societies because it is parent mothers relationship family to accept as gender YUVAL-DAVIES
functional -functional for occurring ADKINS - traditional roles appropriate -white feminists fail to
and therefore
women to fulfil between -gendered division of -verbal acknowledge black
capitalism
PARSONS - housewife role bourgeoisie and labour;horizontal supported by appellations women’s experiences
-men have proletariat segregation the family -domestic and how black women
instrumental practical DENNIS AND translated into the -in a theme park activities- girls are doubly
role and women have ERDOS - household females catering BENSTON - encouraged to do disadvantaged
expressive caring -fatherless children relationships assistant and ride -a wife keeps indoor and boys -feminism is
role; contributes to less likely to be between men and operators male her husband in encouraged to do ethnocentric
good running
smooth running of socialised into the women -female stuff subject outdoor activities
order by
society and explains culture of discipline -under capitalism to sex harrasment feeding and ABBOTT ET AL -
differences in the and less likely to men gained caring for him MCROBBIE - -other feminist views
labour market and successful parents control over DELPHY AND which helps -bedroom culture- concentrate on
elsewhere themselves women as they LEONARD - capitalism run girls retreated to womens experiences
-studied 1000 wanted to pass on -family plays part in smoothly bedrooms as safe derived from white
-womens
RASTOGI - children in private property oppression of unpaid labour space (encouraged perspectives and
-human capital Newcastle in 1947 in inheritance women as its also helps to be inside) where priorities
theory- knowledge, and found greater economic system capitalism they read -white women allowed
competency, attitude statistical chance which men benefit -men told to magazines are to speak on black
and behaviour in an of poor phys from and exploit provide for their spoke about their womens behalf but
family so won't
individual; explains health, low IQ and women’s work futures not other way round
challenge
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