“This is a Man’s World”
According to Connell, “the founding fathers or Sociology” were Marx, Durkheim, and Weber, as they were liable for theorizing European modernity. Connell explained, “The creation of “classical” canon solved certain dilemmas for this enterprise a discipline-defining pedagogy, at the price of narrowing sociology’s intellectual scope and concealing much of its history” (Connell 1511). This explains the fact that everyone who took part in building the theory of Sociology has been overlooked for their credentials. Sprague focused on how theory in sociology is constructed as the cannon, and that it should be viewed as white male capitalists. Sprague definition on how the cannon are represented as a list of individuals referred to our graduate students as the “dead white men”. The critiques the structural characteristics of the sociological cannon were the hierarchal of the social, the problematic analytic categories, and the social role of social theory. As for the Dominant Analytic Categories, Sprague expresses how the feminists approach to criticizing based off of how women are and have been treated in society throughout time. There have been numerous of messages stating that the world we live in is based off of a man, a white capitalist to be exact. Women have tried so hard to overcome their boundaries and set-backs because of their gender and it is because of how things were develop in modern time.
In modern times, women were seen as house wives who took control of the household by taking care of the children, providing meals, and cooking for her family. For the male, his role partook in making sure the household was financially stabled. Although these gender roles consisted of the basics of an ordinary household in modern-time, it has developed over time but still not how it should be. Men have always been known as the dominant gender in society because of the image of the gender roles society has built upon. Sprague expressed, “Seeing the social world through the logical dichotomies and abstract individuation has generated conceptual distinction that distorts the lived experience of many people (Sprague 93)”. Today, we as people have become very prone to the “original” family values that it has been practiced enough to continue through the next generation. Now that a woman is able to provide for the family just as a man would do, a woman will still face discrimination, colored women specifically. Sprague discussed, “The distinction between paid and domestic labor is not adequate to describe the lives of many women, particularly women of color, who have historically been blocked from any waged work other than paid domestic labor and child care (Sprague93).” It almost seems as if society has refused to respect women and giving women chances at labor itself.
In today’s society women are still fighting to get the same wage as men. Women prefer to get treated equally within society because it causes so much controversy between women and the work force. For example a male coach can coach any male or female team in the country whether he is an assistant or a head coach; he will be highly respected because of his credentials, accomplishments, style of coaching, and most of all because he is a man. Women, on the other hand, could not insist on coaching a man’s team because of her gender. If a woman was to coach a male team she would be taken advantaged of because the players and coaches around her would view her as “weak”. They would also think that she has a lack of knowledge about the game. Another instance would be the how society treats the women in sports due to the attention given towards men and women at games, basketball in particular. At a male’s basketball game, there would be big crowds no matter how successful their team may be, people would still pay to see them play. As for women, the women’s basketball team could be very successful and there still would not be any supporters rather than at a male’s game. This occurs because men are dominant in All sports. When people come to games they most likely go to see men.
Overall, women have tried so hard to overcome their boundaries and set-backs because of their gender and it is because of how things were develop in modern time. Although women are becoming acceptance of society’s equality of genders there still are some minor issues that need to be addressed and taken into consideration. Sprague expressed the recurrent critiques into 3 major categories which were the hierarchy of the social, problematic analytic categories, and the social role of social theory. The outlook on feminist’s issues stood out because of the problems that are continued to occur in society today.
According to Connell, “the founding fathers or Sociology” were Marx, Durkheim, and Weber, as they were liable for theorizing European modernity. Connell explained, “The creation of “classical” canon solved certain dilemmas for this enterprise a discipline-defining pedagogy, at the price of narrowing sociology’s intellectual scope and concealing much of its history” (Connell 1511). This explains the fact that everyone who took part in building the theory of Sociology has been overlooked for their credentials. Sprague focused on how theory in sociology is constructed as the cannon, and that it should be viewed as white male capitalists. Sprague definition on how the cannon are represented as a list of individuals referred to our graduate students as the “dead white men”. The critiques the structural characteristics of the sociological cannon were the hierarchal of the social, the problematic analytic categories, and the social role of social theory. As for the Dominant Analytic Categories, Sprague expresses how the feminists approach to criticizing based off of how women are and have been treated in society throughout time. There have been numerous of messages stating that the world we live in is based off of a man, a white capitalist to be exact. Women have tried so hard to overcome their boundaries and set-backs because of their gender and it is because of how things were develop in modern time.
In modern times, women were seen as house wives who took control of the household by taking care of the children, providing meals, and cooking for her family. For the male, his role partook in making sure the household was financially stabled. Although these gender roles consisted of the basics of an ordinary household in modern-time, it has developed over time but still not how it should be. Men have always been known as the dominant gender in society because of the image of the gender roles society has built upon. Sprague expressed, “Seeing the social world through the logical dichotomies and abstract individuation has generated conceptual distinction that distorts the lived experience of many people (Sprague 93)”. Today, we as people have become very prone to the “original” family values that it has been practiced enough to continue through the next generation. Now that a woman is able to provide for the family just as a man would do, a woman will still face discrimination, colored women specifically. Sprague discussed, “The distinction between paid and domestic labor is not adequate to describe the lives of many women, particularly women of color, who have historically been blocked from any waged work other than paid domestic labor and child care (Sprague93).” It almost seems as if society has refused to respect women and giving women chances at labor itself.
In today’s society women are still fighting to get the same wage as men. Women prefer to get treated equally within society because it causes so much controversy between women and the work force. For example a male coach can coach any male or female team in the country whether he is an assistant or a head coach; he will be highly respected because of his credentials, accomplishments, style of coaching, and most of all because he is a man. Women, on the other hand, could not insist on coaching a man’s team because of her gender. If a woman was to coach a male team she would be taken advantaged of because the players and coaches around her would view her as “weak”. They would also think that she has a lack of knowledge about the game. Another instance would be the how society treats the women in sports due to the attention given towards men and women at games, basketball in particular. At a male’s basketball game, there would be big crowds no matter how successful their team may be, people would still pay to see them play. As for women, the women’s basketball team could be very successful and there still would not be any supporters rather than at a male’s game. This occurs because men are dominant in All sports. When people come to games they most likely go to see men.
Overall, women have tried so hard to overcome their boundaries and set-backs because of their gender and it is because of how things were develop in modern time. Although women are becoming acceptance of society’s equality of genders there still are some minor issues that need to be addressed and taken into consideration. Sprague expressed the recurrent critiques into 3 major categories which were the hierarchy of the social, problematic analytic categories, and the social role of social theory. The outlook on feminist’s issues stood out because of the problems that are continued to occur in society today.