ABSTRACT
Today, sociology is in many ways a different discipline from the one I first encountered as an undergraduate student almost thirty years ago. The basic theoretical and methodological foundations remain the same and largely unchanged by the feminist scholarship that has flourished over the same period. The discipline’s contours have expanded, however, to include many new subspecialties—several the products of woman-centered approaches—and its theoretical core has shifted to a more critical, social-conflict centered perspective.
