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Feminist Sociology is the study of gender and feminism in relation to society and its social strucure. Feminist sociology seeks to shift research questions and paradigms in many fields of sociology and improve sociology in general.Feminist sociology explores how and why society prescribes different positions to females and males and how our identities are formed and contested.The basic research examins how issues or race, ethnicity, class, age, sexuality and other dimensions of inequality influence gender as well.Major Feminist Sociology Theoretical perspectives include, Physiological Feminism, Sociobiological Feminism, Structural Functionalist, Liberal feminism, Marxist feminism, Socialist feminism, Radical feminism, Seperatist feminism, Cultural feminism, Black or Multicultural, and Post Modern feminism. Feminist theory seeks to understand the nature of inequality on a more philosophical level. The basic feminist ideas that make up the foundation for feminist sociology are that gender matters, men and women are unequal, that it is possible to eliminate unequalities, and that patriarchy and sexism should be abolished.

Defining Feminism
'''1. The belief that women and men are, and have been, treated differently by our society, and that women have frequently and systematically been unable to participate fully in all social arenas and institutions. 2. A desire to change that situation. 3. That this gives a "new" point-of-view on society, when eliminating old assumptions about why things are the way they are, and looking at it from the perspective that women are not inferior and men are not "the norm."'''

History
"Attending to the basic significance of gender involves accounting for the everyday experiences of women which have been neglected in traditional sociology



Feminist Sociology grew out of the feminist movement. It began during the latter part of the Second-wave feminism.Second-wave feminism refers to a period of feminist activity which began during the early 1960s and lasted through the late 1980s. The feminist issue with traditional sociology argued it had been male oriented with research on men and its results generalized from the male experience to the whole population and other races. Areas of concern to women were overlooked or seen as unimportant. A feminist shift has already been incorporated into other studies such as history, anthropology, and literature. Feminists are still working to transform the basic frameworks in the fiels of sociology.The name "feminism" suggests a single ideology, but in reality the movement has many subgroups. Due to historical precedents, the current legal status of women in certain countries, and other factors, feminist ideology has been compelled to move in different directions to achieve its goals. As a result, there are many different kinds of feminism.

Theory
Feminist theory is an extension of feminism into theoretical or philosophical ground.Feminism ideology can take many different forms. In the 1970's, women started developing a theory which helped to explain their oppression. Pockets of resistance began to organize and challenge patriarchy. By the 1980's, however, feminists started disagreeing on particular issues linked to feminism. What was once one theory, began to branch out into many theories that focused on different feminist issues. Today, there are as many definitions of feminism as there are feminists. Each definition of feminism depends on a number of factors including ones own beliefs, history and culture.

Future
Feminists sociology has already made many contributions to sociology in general and influenced higher education practices. feminist sociology allows for a number of various perspectives and alanysis. Feminist research is not solely about women but in shifting research questions and improving sociology in general. As with feminism, feminist sociology research is not only done by women but by men also and all races and backgrounds of people seeing to improve equality.

Famous feminists
See list of feminists.