![]() Gender and power are crucial clements in all people’s lives. These principles, which involve specific approaches to analyzing social and political issues, also point to why feminism isn’t just a movement for women. “Three core theoretical principles are especially important to understanding what feminism is about. ![]() The problem of order, on the other hand, refers to the problem of how consistent patterns of such rational or nonrational actions are created: are patterns of action the result of continuous negotiation between relatively separated individuals or is this patterning – at least in part – the result of the imposition (either consensually or coercively) on individuals of a sui generis, prior structure or pattern” (Alexander 1988:223)? The problem of action refers basically to epistemological questions: to problems of idealism and materialism, which are usually formulated sociologically in terms of the relative ‘ rationality‘ of the prototypical actor in any theoretical system. “The presuppositions of any social theory are the positions a theory takes about the nature of human action and the manner in which plural actions are interrelated.Modernity is itself deeply and intrinsically sociological” (Giddens 1991:43). In so doing they reflexively restructure their subject matter, which itself has learned to think sociologically. “The discourse of sociology and the concepts, theories, and findings of the other social sciences continually ‘circulate in and out’ of what it is that they are about.It is a systematic study because sociologists apply both theoretical perspectives and research methods (or orderly approaches) to examinations of social behavior” (Kendall 2006:2). “ Sociology is the systematic study of human society and social interaction.Men’s experiences have been viewed as universal and women’s activities and experiences have been hidden” (Hughes and Kroehler 2008:17). “ Sociological feminism begins with the observation that for most of the history of sociology women hardly appear in social theory and research. ![]() ![]()
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