Janet Saltzman Chafetz

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Janet Saltzman Chafetz (born 1942 ; died July 6, 2006 ) was an American professor of sociology .

Life

Janet Saltzman Chafetz first studied at Cornell University , where she graduated with a bachelor's degree in history , before continuing her studies at the University of Connecticut . There she changed subjects and received a degree in sociology , where she received her doctorate in 1969 from the University of Texas at Austin .

From 1972 she was a member of the University of Houston , including 12 years head of the department of sociology. In July 2006, she died of complications from cancer at the age of 64.

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Janet Saltzman Chafetz advocated a feminist view of the object of investigation within sociology, which, in her opinion, would bring important further findings to light, i.e. should not be regarded as a further field of investigation, but rather as an additional method in addition to the already existing, for example, neo Marxist or network theoretical approaches or questions about the social role .

Publications (selection)

  • as Ed .: Handbook of the Sociology of Gender (Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research), 2006.
  • Feminist Sociology: An Overview of Contemporary Theories , 1988.
  • Sex and Advantage: A Comparative Macro-structural Theory of Sex Stratification , 1984.
  • A primer on the construction and testing of theories in sociology , 1978.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Janet Chafetz's Career Spanned More Than 30 Years , uh.edu, July 10, 2006, accessed November 4, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Chafetz, Janet Saltzman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American professor of sociology
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 2006