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Management
Stewart Clegg
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Management Introduction The study of management enjoys a fairly short history, with management having been recognized as a fit subject for stu...
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...
Mass Incarceration in the United States and its Collateral Consequences
Meaghan Mingo, Anna R. Haskins
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2020-10-28
Mass Incarceration in the United States and Its Collateral ConsequencesIntroductionMass incarceration is characterized by comparatively and historical...
Mass Media
Rodney Benson, Tim Wood
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2015-03-10
Mass Media Introduction While the “mass media” have long been an object of research, scholarly emphasis has shifted in recent decades from the...
Material Culture
Terence E. McDonnell, Kelcie Vercel
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2017-06-27
Material CultureIntroductionBeginning with many of its earliest writings, sociology has a long tradition of theorizing the role of objects and materia...
Mathematical Sociology
Guillermina Jasso
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2016-08-30
Mathematical SociologyIntroductionMathematical sociology is sociology expressed in the language of mathematics. It has no special subject matter or sp...
Mead, G.H.
Filipe Carreira da Silva
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
G.H. Mead Introduction George Herbert Mead was born on 27 February 1863, in South Hadley, Massachusetts, the son of a clergyman, Hiram Mead. I...
Medical Sociology
William Cockerham
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Medical SociologyIntroductionMedical sociology, sometimes referred to as health sociology, is the study of the social causes and consequences of healt...
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...
Migration
Eric Fong, Jenny X. Li
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2015-05-29
Migration Introduction Migration refers to the movement of people from one location to another. Although migration occurs both within and betw...
Military Sociology
Morten G. Ender
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Military SociologyIntroductionMilitary sociology is a subfield of sociology. Military sociology is similar to medical sociology and other institutiona...
Money and Credit
Kurtulus Gemici
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2016-01-21
Money and CreditIntroductionMoney is a central institution in modern economies. It quantifies economic worth according to a common metric; it plays a ...
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...
Motherhood
Claudia Geist, Bethany Gull
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
MotherhoodIntroductionDefining the meaning of motherhood is more complex than once thought. Due to technological and legal changes there is more and m...
Multiculturalism
Andrea Voyer
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2016-05-26
MulticulturalismIntroductionIn an increasingly global world with significant cross-border migration, societies inevitably contain people with differen...
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...
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