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Adolescence
Melissa R. Herman
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Adolescence Introduction The sociology of adolescence focuses on biological, social, economic, and psychological development of youth during th...
Aging
Peter Uhlenberg
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Aging Introduction Although the sociology of aging focuses primarily on the later years of life, it is grounded in an understanding that aging ...
Analysis, Spatial
Stephen Matthews
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Spatial Analysis Introduction Recent years have seen a rapid growth in interest in the addition of a spatial perspective, especially in the soc...
Analysis, World-Systems
Georgi Derluguian
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
World-Systems Analysis Introduction The world-systems analysis (WSA) emerged in the stormy period marked by the worldwide youth protests of 196...
Asian Americans
Jennifer C. Lee, Alexander Lu
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Asian Americans Introduction Asian Americans currently make up about five percent of the US population and are one of the fastest growing racia...
Assimilation
Van C. Tran
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Assimilation Introduction The study of immigrant assimilation has had a central place in the discipline of sociology, beginning with sociologis...
Biosociology
Rosemary Hopcroft
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Biosociology Introduction Biosociology is a subject that has emerged relatively recently in sociology—an emergence not without controversy. How...
Bourdieu, Pierre
Etienne Ollion
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Pierre Bourdieu Introduction Pierre Bourdieu was born on 1 August 1930 in a rural area of southwestern France. The only child of a peasant sha...
Caste
Surinder Jodhka
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Caste Introduction Caste is popularly understood as a “closed system” of social stratification in which social groups, often divided on the bas...
Chicago School of Sociology
Mary Jo Deegan
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Chicago School of Sociology Introduction The Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago established an early intellectual and profess...
Chinese Society
Xianbi Huang
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Chinese Society Introduction Chinese society, with the largest population and one of the oldest civilizations in the world, is experiencing co...
Citizenship
Yasemin Soysal
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Citizenship Introduction Long a purview of legal and normative political theories, citizenship has made its way in noticeable strides into the ...
Class
Jeff Manza
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Class Introduction No concept is more widely used in sociology than that of “class.” Rooted in the writings of Marx and Engels, as well as Webe...
Community
Zachary P. Neal
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Community Introduction Community is a broad topic within sociology, the social sciences generally, and indeed even in the natural and physical...
Consumption
Ian Woodward
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Consumption Introduction A rudimentary definition of consumption emphasizes the purchase and use of goods or services, noting that the point o...
Criminology
Sara Wakefield
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Criminology Introduction Criminology is a broad subfield drawing from a number of academic disciplines. Beyond its historically strong ties to ...
Culture, Sociology of
Brian Steensland
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Sociology of Culture Introduction Culture is the symbolic-expressive dimension of social life. In common usage, the term “culture” can mean the...
Development
Andrew Schrank
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Development Introduction Development occupies an ambiguous position in contemporary sociology. It is simultaneously a cause (or correlate) of p...
Deviance
Dick Hobbs
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Deviance Introduction The study of deviant behavior, although now partially obscured by the relentless expansion of criminology, remains central...
Discrimination
Issa Kohler-Hausmann
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Discrimination Introduction Discrimination is an action or practice that excludes, disadvantages, or merely differentiates between individuals ...
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