Compare and contrast the different roles early feminist thinkers thought the sociologists should have in science, and society more generally.
What will be an ideal response?
• Martineau focused on social science, collecting facts from architectural remains, epitaphs, civic registers, national music, or other places in order to elaborate strategies for field work, including a diary of one’s views, a journal of one’s observations, a notebook for recording events
• Gilman practiced a largely theoretical sociology while focusing her activism on transforming education and household
• Jane Addams was more of an activist than a sociologist
• Marginalized by their race, early Black feminists refrained from overt activism and concentrated on sociology theory (Cooper) and research methods (Ida Wells-Barnett)
• Marianne Schnitger Weber preferred a focus on sociology over activism, although much of her sociology focused on feminist reforms
• Thinking feminist reforms needed information to be successful, Potter concentrated her sociology on research
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a. industrial capitalists. b. intelligentsia, or educated professionals. c. apparatchiks, or high government officials. d. hereditary nobility.
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A. nonfamily households B. family households C. modern families D. traditional families