Sociology - Oxford Bibliographies
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...
African Americans
Alford A. Young, Jr.
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
African Americans Introduction African Americans have been the focus of wide-ranging studies in sociology for more than a century. Research on...
African Societies
Linda Semu
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
African Societies Introduction African societies are complex and diverse, requiring an interdisciplinary approach to evaluate and understand t...
Agent-Based Modeling
Edmund Chattoe-Brown
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2017-05-24
Agent-Based ModelingIntroductionAgent-Based Modeling is a research method that represents theories of social behavior as computer programs of a partic...
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, Rachel Bacon, R. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy, Ellis Logan
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Spatial AnalysisIntroductionRecent years have seen a rapid growth in interest in the addition of a spatial perspective, especially in the social and h...
Analysis, World-Systems
Georgi Derluguian, Kevan Harris
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
World-Systems Analysis Introduction World-systems analysis (WSA) emerged in the stormy period between worldwide waves of protest in 1968 and t...
Anarchism
Ruth Kinna
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
AnarchismIntroductionAnarchism developed as a distinctive strain within radical and revolutionary thought in the mid-19th century. The political theor...
Anomie and Strain Theory
Seth B. Abrutyn
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2018-09-25
Anomie and Strain TheoryIntroductionFew concepts truly belong to the sociological lexicon like anomie does. First appearing in French theorist Émile D...
Arab Spring, Mobilization, and Contentious Politics in the Middle East
Atef Said
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2017-02-28
Arab Spring, Mobilization, and Contentious Politics in the Middle EastIntroductionThe following is an annotated bibliography on the Arab Spring, speci...
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
Immigrant AssimilationIntroductionThe study of immigrant assimilation has had a central place in the discipline of sociology, beginning with sociologi...
Authority and Work
Ryan A. Smith, George Wilson
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2018-04-26
Authority and WorkIntroductionThe sociological study of authority (i.e., legitimate workplace control of human and organizational resources) is rooted...
Bell, Daniel
Robert J. Holton
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2015-03-10
Daniel Bell Introduction Daniel Bell (b. 1919–d. 2011) was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan into a family of immigrant Jewish garment ...
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...
Careers
Phyllis Moen, Shi-Rong Lee
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2015-06-29
Careers Introduction The concept of career has traditionally been defined as a series of positions, an orderly and hierarchical progression up...
Caste
Surinder S. Jodhka
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
CasteIntroductionCaste is popularly understood as a uniquely Indian and Hindu system of social organization. In the sociological writings, it is often...
Catholicism
Tricia C. Bruce
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Catholicism Introduction The sociology of Catholicism, like the sociology of religion more broadly, examines how individuals, communities, and...
Causal Inference
Pablo Geraldo Bastías, Jennie E. Brand
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Causal InferenceIntroductionCausal inference is a growing interdisciplinary subfield in statistics, computer science, economics, epidemiology, and the...
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