Dorothy E. Smith

Their stance may not have been as boisterous then as it is now, but they have always played an important role within the formation of todays’ society. The final attribute, studied within this chapter, supports this notion with the rise of female workers within America. Some of the most famous women social employees were: Jane Addams, Charlotte Gilman, Anna Cooper, Ida Wells-Barnett, Marianne Weber, and Beatrice Webb. Each of these women were still looked upon as inferior to men despite their contributions to society as a whole. These women believed sociology was developed from scholarly investigations that helped to attribute to the ideology of improving ones’ life through education and learning means. The women believed that this change would bring about both a sense of belong for women within cultural societies as well as modeling the community into a world in which everyone can coincide together. Their work would not be accounted for under the sociological realm of study… but it would be attributed to the greater sense of communal study as it is known

During an era were women were not commonly seen outside the home, Margaret Chase Smith was a groundbreaking politician, who achieved many monumental “firsts” as a female in politics. She was the first woman to serve in both the United States House and Senate, the first woman to hold a Senate seat as Republican, and first women to be elected to Senate without first being appointed to it. During her time in office, Margaret Smith protested strongly against gender inequality and was a supporter of the idea that women should seek higher opportunity in both business and politics. She also fought against the ideals of McCarthyism. While in office, she stated her two primary goals were to keep her job in Washington and retain a close, informed relationship

Louisa Lawson was born in 1848 the 17th of February and she was the second oldest out of her twelve siblings. She was born in NSW in Australia. She was a Feminist, Women's rights activist, Writer and a Businesswoman. Louisa fought for women's rights in Australia. At the age of eighteen, Louisa Lawson accepted the marriage proposal of Niels Hertzberg. In her early 20s she was a newspaper proprietor and in the next ten years she had five children, she helped her family by washing, sewing and cooking. After her 5th child she decided to move to Sydney and she would sew things and sell dairy produce and that's when she found out about men getting paid more than women. In 1887 she bought the republican magazine. Then the next year, 1888, Louisa

Doctor Dorothy Otnow Lewis was a psychiatrist who has been investigating inmates who are on death row to find the relation between damaged brains and violent behavior. She reviews over their medical histories, specifically their brains in order to see where damage the damage is located in each person’s brain. She states, “while most damaged people do not turn into killers, almost every killer is a damaged person” (DIPC, “Damaged Brains and the Death Penalty”). This statement can be explained with the information that is stated above with James Fallon. He did indeed have a damaged brain however it did not lead to him becoming “insane” or a violent criminal, showing that not all damage leads to a person being a killer. Lewis has worked with several

The women founders of sociological theory made it possible for women and members of other marginalized communities to gain access to the rights and privileges their white male counterparts enjoyed for centuries. In particular, the incredible lives of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Ida B. Wells-Barnett allowed new avenues of academia and social change that had not previously been conceivable. Although they used different approaches and their theories focused on different aspects of the society in which they lived, a common thread ties them together in the history of feminist thinkers: their passion for social and

15).The reason for developing an interest in Marxism was because of his readings in "German Ideology" which stated ; " We're going to have done with speculation and all this crap. We're going to start with actual people, their actual work." (Carroll, 2010, pp. 15-16). This gave her a better view to do something in a different way, which will hold out in the favor of women. It also made her aware and comprehend that ideal social, political and economic relations outlines and establishes women's oppression in society (Smith, Feminism and Marxism-A place to Begin,a Way to Go, 2005, p.

They even both recognize the inevitability and necessity of economic inequality. The two thinkers diverge on handling the systematic inequality of power in a society, and even why it requires handling at all. For Smith, this inequality creates economic issues among the working class, hindering not only the wellbeing of these people but the productivity and the growth of the entire state. On the other hand, Rousseau sees this inequality as a strictly immoral and unjust treatment of the majority of the state. In accordance with these differences, Smith attempts to rectify inequality by dealing with the issues it causes; capital owners having power over laborers is not inherently problematic. On the contrary, Smith believes that some level of inequality helps everyone if kept in check. Rousseau, on the other hand, aims to eliminate it completely through a flat political structure. What began in explicit agreement - the origin of inequality - ended in explicit disagreement: Smith views masters as a necessary construction, while even the very concept would arouse contempt from

Whereas, society has strayed like a lost puppy from honoring women like men with points of view with regards like hostile Jack Fletcher, in the Huffington Post, “In fact, feminism is a threat to the way things have been for centuries, one which affects the demographic he belongs to particularly: the white, straight, middle-class male” because of the social clasps upon becoming a masculine man has been followed since the beginning of time and women the homemakers that deliberately tend to the feminine tasks of life (Global). Even when digging deeper into expert opinion, Alice Rossi, who is educated in Sociology claims, “Because women have deluded themselves that a doll’s house is large enough to find complete fulfillment within it,” which is a latch for youthful girls towards home making earlier on before thoughts of children are even imagined (Chafe 68). These bearings of growing up revolve around beliefs from childhood that even one’s parents today are installing like Tony Porter’s parents did. He claims, “He was taught men are in charge which means women are not;

The ideas of Adam Smith and Karl Marx are distinctly different, even though they both build on the main idea of capitalism. This idea of capitalism that they build on is that of the modern industrialised economy and nation. With this idea in mind, they both provide their own critiques to the system of capitalism that would perfect it in their own opinion. This is the question that will be answered; which of these men has the plight of the common man in mind? Through this question, the way both men view the common labourer’s plight will be observed. How both men believe action should be taken to better this plight of the common man will be the focal observation. With the end goal of showing, through evidence from both men, that Adam Smith had the hardships of the common man in mind in his critique of capitalism that seemingly favours the capitalist.

This view is manifestly similar to Marx’s, in that both believe under socialist and communal based economic systems, man is entitled to all the fruits of their capabilities; or to put it more succinctly; “from each according to his ability” (Marx, ---, p.). There is obvious disparity between Smith and Kropotkin on property. Smith’s favoring of laisse-fare capitalism is exactly what Kropotkin is rejecting and criticizing. Kropotkin doesn’t outright reject all group enterprises however, showing that both him and Smith encourage development and hope for societal benefit with their ideologies. The difference lies in Kropotkin advocating for equality, and rejection of any hierarchical management or worker exploitation, while Smith accepts it as necessity. Both individuals hold persuasive ideas, however Kropotkin presents a more logically sound argument by nature of his idea behind a benefitted society being one of no exploitation; whereas Smith’s is somewhat contradictory as he accepts inequality as a trade-off of advancement and benefitting society, this is somewhat counterintuitive to suggest society is “better” when a whole class is oppressed and

What audience did Dorothy Day have in mind when writing her autobiography? Who was she trying to reach and what was her message?

Evans begins her story by mentioning in the 1960s, “most Americans hardly knew there was such a thing as feminism”( Evans 58). With a “dramatic expansion of education and service industries”(Evans 61) after WW2, millions of jobs opened up for women. Women with graduate degrees still were a small minority, but the small influx began to change the behavior of both men and women. By the mid-1960s, “people married later and more of them not at all” (Evans 65). Equality and liberation were the demands that launched the Second Wave of women’s rights activism. Women began creating women’s liberation groups where women could “think independently of male-supremacist values”(

The philosopher, social scientist, historian and revolutionary, Karl Marx, is without a doubt the most influential socialist thinker to emerge in the 19th century. Although he was largely ignored by scholars in his own lifetime, his social, economic and political ideas gained rapid acceptance in the socialist movement after his death in 1883. Until quite recently almost half the population of the world lived under regimes that claim to be Marxist. This very success, however, has meant that the original ideas of Marx have often been modified and his meanings adapted to a great variety of political circumstances. In addition, the fact that Marx delayed publication of many of his writings meant that is been only recently that scholars had the

In the past, women fortunate enough to receive an education have found it difficult to thrive in a male directed society. Such was the case of Margaret Floy Washburn and S. Josephine Baker. Washburn faced discrimination in her pursuit of upper level education. Only allowed to be a “hearer” (Washburn, 1992, p. 134), she was allowed to attend classes at Columbia University; however she was not allowed to obtain a degree. (Washburn, 1992, p. 134). Despite this opposition, she would go on to receive a doctor’s degree and become the chair of Psychology, Philosophy, and Ethics at Wells

Dorothy Parker was born in 1893 at her parents’ summer home in New Jersey. Unfortunately, her childhood was very rough. Her mother and her step-mother died when Parker was still a child. She attended a Catholic grammar school, but ended her formal education by the time she was fourteen years of age. In her late teenage years another catastrophe hit, her uncle was on the notorious Titanic ship that sunk and he did not make it. Parker’s series of unfortunate events did not finish, her father passed away a year later. Parker sold her first poem to Vanity Fair and her first collection of poetry “Enough Rope” was published in 1926 and became a best-seller. She later worker for Vogue when she was twenty-two years old. She wrote poems for newspapers and magazines while she worked for Vogue, however she joined Vanity Fair to work as a drama critic later on. The same year she became a drama critic, she married a stockbroker which lasted about ten years (Poets.org).