Sociology - Oxford Bibliographies
Du Bois, W.E.B.
Rashawn Ray
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
W. E. B. Du Bois Introduction William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (b. 1868–d. 1963) was a pioneering social theorist, methodologist, public sociolo...
Durkheim, Émile
Alexander Riley
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Émile Durkheim Introduction David Émile Durkheim was born on 15 April 1858, in Épinal, France, in the region of Lorraine. His influential, co...
Economic Sociology
Frederick Wherry
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Economic Sociology Introduction Economic sociology is the study of the relationship between society and the market. The field incorporates insi...
Education
Kristin Jordan, Jennifer C. Lee
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Education Introduction Sociology of education includes the study of all aspects of education ranging from the organization of schools themselve...
Elites
Shamus Khan
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Elites Introduction Elites are those who have vastly disproportionate access to or control over a social resource. Such resources have transfer...
Emotions
Kathryn J. Lively
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Emotions Introduction The sociology of emotion is a relatively new field. Developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the sociology of emotion...
Entrepreneurship
Patricia H. Thornton, Ling Yang
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Entrepreneurship Introduction Entrepreneurship as an engine of innovation and job creation is a mechanism for changing the distribution of soc...
Family
Lisa M. Warner, Brian Powell
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Family Introduction Family is among the most important social institutions—if not the most important. Sociologists recognize the centrality of ...
Feminist Theory
Jennifer Carlson, Raka Ray
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Feminist Theory Introduction Feminist theory explores both inequality in gender relations and the constitution of gender. It is best understood...
Food
Michaela DeSoucey
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Food Introduction Food is a relatively new empirically distinct area within sociology. Previously, studies of food production and consumption ...
Foucault, Michel
Gavin Kendall
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Michel Foucault Introduction Paul-Michel Foucault was born in Poitiers, France, on 15 October 1926 and died in Paris on 25 June 1984. He was a ...
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...
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