Bifurcation Of Conciseness Summary

After World War II, the nation was blooming. Everything was growing, people were going to college, and wealth grew. The idea of the perfect American life was developed, this included a husband that worked and a wife that stayed home and took care of the house and children. To look at how women are affected by this perfect life I am analyzing “Governor Adlai Stevenson Tells College Women about Their Place in Life, 1955” and “Good Housekeeping: Every Executive Needs a Perfect Wife, 1956”.

Lengerman and Niebrugge believed that female sociologists early focused on advocacy to undercut their perceived importance because they were constantly being compared to the male sociologists. The authors addressed in their article that “the academic work site made it all but impossible for women to interact with men as professional equals in face to face relations” (Pg. 16). When women were compared to men, they were seen to have a “lack of authority”, “the less than being” or “the being who need not be taken seriously” (Pg. 10). It has been more common for the ideas and works of the males to be heard and published. For the reason being females got the short end of the stick, meaning they had to work harder to prove themselves and their

In the essay “Why Men Still Can’t Have It All” by Richard Dorment, the topic of equality in the genders is explored. This topic includes various aspects of the lives of men and women, including work in and out of the home. Dorment responds to other opinions and viewpoints and explains why “no one can have it all.” He brings up many convincing arguments that show why the feminist push for equals rights for women is not producing the outcome that people want it to have. I agree with what much of Dorment is saying in this essay, and the following paragraphs will explain Dorment’s argument.

Chapter six brings a different approach at introducing the importance of sociology. This chapter, focuses upon the historical significance of American sociology as society knows of it today. It discusses many different aspects of sociology, but it intentionally focuses on these important aspects that include: “The Chicago school”, sociologists whom attributed to American sociology, and the rise of female sociologists. These three fundamentals establish the overall history of American sociology.

Dorothy Smith’s approach challenges Sociological Theory and the way it has been constructed. She offered a framework to close the gap between the objective knowledge and the personal experiences that people encounters in everyday life. Most importantly, Smith challenges one of the most traditional sociological discourses of male dominance through the use of concepts, theologies, and textual concepts that confines human behavior. Her framework known as institutional ethnography constitutes that bridge between the macro and micro level in society. She also focuses in marginal groups from the micro level and the way their agency is conceptualized to and dominated by the macro level’s ruling relations. She takes women and her experiences to rebuild this framework from a standpoint of inquiry rather than social scientific inquiry. At the end, she sets forward a new goal for marginal groups inner circle to be interconnected with the subjective world and influencing the ongoing theoretical method to find the overall meaning of women. She doesn’t only challenge the official and personal texts mediating the relation of ruling between the abstract theories and the standpoint of women, but she challenges women to be part of a sociological turn for them instead of contributing the limitations of sociological discourses and theories.

In this satirical article, Brady expresses the difference between the roles of women and men in the 1970’s by stating men’s point of view on women and women’s roles in society. Throughout her article, Brady emphasizes the roles of women. For example, women could now “work and...takes care of the children when they are sick”. Comparing the 1880’s to the 1970’s, there has been a big improvement. Many women had jobs outside their home, but still were responsible for most housework and childcare while their husband’s only responsibility in a marriage was to go to work and earn money to support the family. Society’s expectations allowed women to work outside the home to support college education for husbands; however,women had to know how to balance their time between their children and their jobs, making sure that their husbands “cannot miss classes at school.” During the 1970’s, women were still oppressed in many ways and had to follow society's expectations in order to live up to the men’s view of women’s roles in society. Even though society’s expectations of women had improved since The Awakening, most of women’s roles had stayed the same. In the article, Brady specifies how once a husband is “through with school and has a job, [he expects the] wife to quit working and remain at home so that [she] can more fully and completely take

In life we are told to “have it all” by raising a perfect family, getting a beautiful house, and having a high paying job; but is it possible to have it all? How many people can honestly have it all, when so many are just trying to survive? In the articles, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” and “Why Men Still Can’t Have It All,” Anne-Marie Slaughter and Richard Dorment, discuss how women function in the workplace and the different expectant outcomes for each, mainly focusing on the upper class. The primary objective of Slaughter’s passage was to show how women are treated poorly and how they are held to a different standard than their male counterparts. Dorment focused mostly on how neither women nor men should strive to “have it all” because nobody can. Together they consider the subjects of workplace discrimination, housework standards, family involvement, and striving to “have it all.”

Beginning to hone in her construct of analysis Smith began developing her work and writings with the concrete actualities of the everyday women. Smith’s formulation of this of work was the “Women’s experience as a radical critique of sociology”.

Most of Rich’s argumentation centered around the struggles of a collegiate life for females remain cogent. In fact, some issues such as the use of gender neutral language in academia are fiercely discussed presently.

Levin writes about the growth of women's studies in academia, what women's studies have done for students in the classroom, why it differs from other courses and why it needs to be assessed to move forward. The first women's studies program was established in 1970 and the NWSA was formed in 1977. Women's studies is rather new in academia but has come a long way since it's start. Women's studies courses are now offered in every state at a variety of different colleges and institutions and are even offered through online courses. Even though women's studies have expanded so much, there is still a lot to overcome and many who question the validity of the field entirely. To further divulge on the growth of the women's studies field we must answer

The society of which we live in is constantly changing and my desire is to keep up with the changes and understand why these are occurring, this is why I would love to enhance the opportunity to study sociology at university. Parsons, a functionalist sociologist puts forward many views and theories. A theory of which struck me throughout my education of sociology was the ‘’warm bath theory’’. I personally do not agree with this theory due to the aspects of improvement of the position of women, the ‘neo-conventional role’ given to us by Chester portrays that both spouses are working therefore I believe that it just leads to women taking on roles such as the ‘triple and double shift which, is imbalanced.

Sociology, its thoughts it methods, conceptual schemes and theories have been based on and built up within the male social universe, even when women have participated in its doing. There is thus a disjunction between how women experience the world and the concepts and theoretical schemes by which society’s self-consciousness is inscribed. The worlds of men have had and still have an authorit over the worlds that are tradionatlly womens and still are predominately womens [the worlds of house hold, children, the neighborhood]. Women do not only in habit these worlds but the mast majority of women are the primary

"Theory making, therefore, cannot be ghettoized, because reality does not come in separate boxes. We must uncover not only the different experiences of diverse groups of women, but the processes creating these differences" (473).

Sociology, in its most simple form, is often described as the study of society and culture or as Alvin L. Bertrand says, “the study of human relationships” in his book ‘Basic Sociology’ (1967:5), although, others argue that it is not that simple, such as R. Jenkins who says “There are those for whom the fundamental building blocks of Sociological analysis can only be individuals, others for whom they must be collectivities” in ‘The foundations of Sociology (R. Jenkins: 15). Sociology brings together a number of different viewpoints from a wide range of sociologists. Although Auguste Come was the founder of the term ‘Sociology’, a number of different Sociologists, such as Durkheim and Marx, have challenged and changed perceptions about the term.

According to the history of sociology, it was the nineteenth century that sociology emerged, with the word ‘ sociology ’ appeared in the Cours de philosophie Positive Book 4[ Auguste Comte,1838 Cours de philosophie Positive] by Comte in 1838. The social forces, however, were complicated actually, which included both social, economical, cultural and even a little bit of political or religious elements. This essay explains these factors in the following part.