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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...
Morality
Steven Hitlin
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Morality Introduction The study of morality was once central to social thought and a primary concern of philosophers throughout recorded histo...
Multilevel Models
Andrew S. Fullerton
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Multilevel Models Introduction Multilevel models are a set of statistical techniques for analyzing quantitative data measured at two or more le...
Nationalism
Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Christian Bracho
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Nationalism Introduction Nationalism has been defined in a variety of ways, but definitions are always rooted in the nation, which most scholar...
Occupations and Professions
Kyle Albert, Kim Weeden
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Occupations and Professions Introduction Sociologists have long been fascinated with occupations and professions, both as forms of social organ...
Organizations
Saylor Breckenridge, Scott Savage
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Organizations Introduction Organizations are, generally speaking, those stable elements of social life designed and created for the purpose of ...
Political Sociology
Jeff Manza
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Political Sociology Introduction Political sociology is the study of power and the relationship between societies, states, and political confli...
Poverty
David Brady
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Poverty Introduction The sociology of poverty focuses on the nature, causes, and consequences of poverty. Sociologists have explored why povert...
Power
Stewart Clegg
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Power Introduction The concept of power is absolutely central to any understanding of society. The ubiquity of the concept can be seen by a com...
Proletariat (Working Class)
Yunus Kaya
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2012-09-20
Proletariat (Working Class) Introduction The prevalence of wage labor has been a defining characteristic of modern societies. Following the In...
Protestantism
Bradley Wright
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Protestantism Introduction Christianity is the largest religion in the world, and Protestantism is one of its major traditions. It encompasses...
Public Opinion
Andrew Perrin
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Public Opinion Introduction The modern idea of public opinion research developed in the 1930s as a promising way to bring new scientific techniqu...
Religion
John Evans
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Religion Introduction The sociology of religion is a social science that examines how people are religious but does not advocate for a particul...
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