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Occupations and Professions
Kyle Albert, Kim Weeden
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Occupations and ProfessionsIntroductionSociologists have long been fascinated with occupations and professions, both as forms of social organization a...
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 ...
Paid Work
Rudi Wielers
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Paid WorkIntroductionEver since the emergence of sociology as a discipline, sociologists have shown an interest in paid work. Marx, Weber, and Durkhei...
Panel Studies
Heather Laurie
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Panel Studies Introduction Panel studies are a particular design of longitudinal study in which the unit of analysis is followed at specified ...
Parsons, Talcott
Uta Gerhardt
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2016-09-28
Talcott ParsonsIntroductionTalcott Parsons (b. 1902–d. 1979) was born into the family of a New England Congregational clergyman. His father, Edward Sm...
Policing
Michael Sierra-Arévalo
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2018-10-25
PolicingIntroductionPolicing refers to the profession and practice of maintaining social order and enforcing the law through the street-level preventi...
Political Culture
Mabel Berezin, Emily Sandusky
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Political CultureIntroductionPolitical culture can be conceptualized as the matrix of meanings embodied in expressive symbols, practices, and beliefs ...
Political Economy
Gregory Hooks, Andrew Crookston
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Political Economy Introduction Arguably, political economy—the intersection of economics and politics—is the foundation of the modern social s...
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...
Popular Culture
Dustin Kidd
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2017-02-28
Popular CultureIntroductionPopular culture is the set of practices, beliefs, and objects that embody the most broadly shared meanings of a social syst...
Positivism
Seth B. Abrutyn
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Positivism Introduction Positivism is a philosophy of science that assumes a specific epistemological, ontological, and methodological perspec...
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
PowerIntroductionThe concept of power is absolutely central to any understanding of society. Despite its ubiquity, power is arguably one of the most d...
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...
Public Space
Gordon Douglas
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2022-07-26
Public SpaceIntroductionSociology has an oddly imperfect, even problematic, relationship with public space (and space in general). Taking public space...
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
Axel Marx
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2016-11-28
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)IntroductionThe social sciences use a wide range of research methods and techniques ranging from experiments to ...
Race
Rashawn Ray, Nicole DeLoatch
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2016-07-27
RaceIntroductionRace is a human classification system that is socially constructed to distinguish between groups of people who share phenotypical char...
Race and Sexuality
Ghassan Moussawi, Vrushali Patil
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2020-03-25
Race and SexualityIntroductionPioneering work on the relationship between race and sexuality can be dated from the late 1970s. Early academic, politic...
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