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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...
Social Closure
Juergen Mackert
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Social Closure Introduction “Social closure” is one of the most basic terms and concepts in sociology. Basically, closure refers to processes ...
Social Control
Jason Carmichael
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Social Control Introduction Social control is the study of the mechanisms, in the form of patterns of pressure, through which society maintain...
Social Mobility
Steven Rytina
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Social Mobility Introduction Social mobility refers to the movement of individuals, families, or groups among stratified social positions. Conc...
Social Movements
Donatella della Porta
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Social Movements Introduction Four elements are common in social science definitions of social movements: a network structure, the use of uncon...
Social Networks
David Knoke
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Social Networks Introduction Social network analysis comprise theories and methods of investigating structural relations among social actors an...
Social Policy
Mara Yerkes
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Social Policy Introduction Social policy exists as an academic discipline but also refers to the practice of policymaking and administration (...
Social Problems
Joel Best
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Social Problems Introduction The term “social problem” is usually taken to refer to social conditions that disrupt or damage society—crime, rac...
Social Psychology
Alison Bianchi
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Social Psychology Introduction According to one of its most notable early researchers, the psychologist Gordon Allport, social psychology is t...
Social Stratification
Robert Andersen
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Social Stratification Introduction Broadly defined, social stratification is an important part of many areas of study in sociology, but it also...
Social Theory
Austin Harrington
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Social Theory Introduction Social theory refers to ideas, arguments, hypotheses, thought-experiments and explanatory speculations about how and...
Sociological Research on the Chinese Society
Xueguang Zhou
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Sociological Research on the Chinese Society Introduction The sociology of China is part of an interdisciplinary field that examines different...
Sociological Research, Qualitative Methods in
Jeff Sallaz
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Qualitative Methods in Sociological Research Introduction Qualitative research methods have a long and distinguished history within sociology. ...
Sociological Research, Quantitative Methods in
Erin Leahey
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Quantitative Methods in Sociological Research Introduction Sociology develops, adopts, and adapts a wide variety of methods for understanding t...
Status
Michael Sauder
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Status Introduction Social status is a central dimension of stratification, making up one leg of the traditional “class, status, power” divisio...
Symbolic Interactionism
Gary Fine, Kent Sandstrom
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Symbolic Interactionism Introduction While the history of symbolic interactionism stretches back through the 20th century, it emerged as a prom...
Trust
Karen Cook, Bogdan State
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Trust Introduction Trust is a recurrent theme in social science literature. In the past four decades it has become the focus of a great deal of...
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