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Gender
Janeen Baxter
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Gender Introduction The term gender refers to the cultural and social characteristics attributed to men and women on the basis of perceived bio...
Gentrification
Japonica Brown-Saracino
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Gentrification Introduction In 1964 in an effort to describe and classify the transformation of the economic, demographic, commercial, cultura...
Gerontology
Jill Quadagno, Sunshine Rote
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Gerontology Introduction Social gerontology is a subfield of gerontology. It is concerned mainly with the social, rather than the biological, a...
Health
Sigrun Olafsdottir
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Health Introduction Medical sociology examines the interaction between society and health. It is a broad subfield that focuses on both macro- a...
Historical Sociology, Comparative
Monica Prasad
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Comparative Historical Sociology Introduction Comparative historical sociology is the branch of sociology that analyzes society-wide transforma...
Housework
Judith Treas, Anne Tatlock
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Housework Introduction Housework contributes to the broad project of social reproduction. Household labor perpetuates the social structures as...
Identity
Angie Andriot, Timothy J. Owens
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Identity Introduction We outline four identity theories typically employed by contemporary social psychologists: personal identity, role identi...
Immigration
Irene Bloemraad, Edwin Lin
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Immigration Introduction The field of immigration research is broadly interested in understanding why people migrate across international borde...
Internet
Coye Cheshire, Ashwin Mathew
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Internet Introduction The Internet is a worldwide system of computer networks (a network of networks). It is a technical network (involving com...
Labor Markets
Matt L. Huffman
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Labor Markets Introduction The sociology of labor markets is a large and diverse field reflecting the varied connotations of the concept of a ...
Law, Sociology of
Mathieu Deflem
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Sociology of Law Introduction The sociology of law refers to the sociological study of law and law-related phenomena, whereby law is typically ...
Life Course
Deborah Carr
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Life Course Introduction Sociology of the life course is a sophisticated theoretical paradigm designed to understand human lives. Four key ...
Marriage and Divorce
Nicholas Wolfinger
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Marriage and Divorce Introduction Marriage and divorce have been written about for thousands of years—both are prominently discussed in the Bi...
Marxist Sociology
Michael McCarthy, Jeff Manza
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Marxist Sociology Introduction Karl Marx (b. 1818–d. 1883) and his lifelong collaborator Friedrich Engels (b. 1820–d. 1895) developed a body of...
Masculinity
Michael Kimmel, Tristan Bridges
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Masculinity Introduction Masculinities studies is a vibrant, interdisciplinary field of study broadly concerned with the social construction of...
Medical Sociology
William Cockerham
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Medical Sociology Introduction Medical sociology, sometimes referred to as health sociology, is the study of the social causes and consequences...
Mental Illness
Krysia N. Mossakowski
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Mental Illness Introduction A growing area in sociology investigates the social causes and consequences of mental health and illness. The soci...
Methodological Individualism
Lars Udehn
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Methodological Individualism Introduction From the start, there have been, in philosophy and the social sciences, a number of debates about th...
Middle Classes
Scott T. Fitzgerald
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Middle Classes Introduction Despite copious studies on the middle classes, there is no single, widely held definition of the middle class. Som...
Military Sociology
Morten G. Ender
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Military Sociology Introduction Military sociology is a subfield of sociology. Military sociology is similar to medical sociology and other in...
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