Feminism

Feminist sociologisty explains society from the position of women, they highlights gender inequalities that are based upon power relations. Feminists argue that gender roles are socially constructed. Inequalities are social and not based on biology.

Many feminists are very negative about the society we live in and always see the bad in everything. Most feminists believe that society is male dominated( patriarchy).They look at society on a macro scale this means that they look at society on a large scale. They want to generalise their ideas about males and females to the whole of society.

Feminists also believe that society is based on conflict, this means disagreement. The conflict is between the sexes,males and females. They believe that women have been disadvantaged in society and that men have more power than women and that this is not right.

There are lots of different feminist theories not just one. They all share one thing in common they look at the differences in society between men and women and try to see how these problems could be solved.

• Liberal feminism: they believe that women and men are becoming more equal in society. They see that the problem was caused by the law being sexist and also the differences in socialisation (way we are brought up e.g Gender scripts) between males and females.

•  Marxist Feminist:they believe that men and women are still unequal in society. Women are there to benefit capitalist society by being unpaid housewives and having low paid part time jobs.

• Radical Feminism: they also believe that men and women are still unequal in society, they Argues that society is patriarchal, society is male dominated, oppressive and exploitative towards women.