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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...
Race and Violence
Arturo Aldama, Laura Malaver, Shawn O'Neal, Alejandra Benita Portillos
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2020-07-29
Race and ViolenceIntroductionWhite-supremacist violence; theft of land and resources; the genocide of indigenous peoples and the horrors of violence o...
Race and Youth
Margaret A. Hagerman, Courtney Heath
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Race and YouthIntroductionThough the study of race and youth is an interdisciplinary endeavor, this article is centered on research on this topic from...
Race in Global Perspective
Aurora Vergara-Figueroa
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Race in Global PerspectiveIntroductionRace and racism are key analytical constructs that express fundamental issues not only of power and inequality, ...
Race, Organizations, and Movements
Melissa E. Wooten
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Race, Organizations, and MovementsIntroductionAlthough they developed distinct of one another, there is a growing trend to combine insights from the r...
Racism
Thomas F. Pettigrew
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2016-04-28
RacismIntroductionRacism is a doctrine that holds that the world’s human population consists of various “races” that are the primary determinants of h...
Rational Choice
Rafael Wittek
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Rational Choice Introduction “Rational choice theory” is a general theory of action and is considered one of the three overarching meta-theore...
Relationships
Tsui-O Tai
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Relationships Introduction Social scientists from different disciplines have conducted research on relationships. The list includes psychologi...
Religion
John Evans, Lindsay DePalma
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
ReligionIntroductionThe sociology of religion is a social science that examines how people are religious but does not advocate for a particular theolo...
Religion and the Public Sphere
Michael Brennan, Diana Stypinska
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Religion and the Public SphereIntroductionReligion in the public sphere (hereafter RPS) refers to the intermingling of religion with issues of politic...
Residential Segregation
Jeffrey M. Timberlake, Mario D. Ignatov
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2014-11-25
Residential Segregation Introduction Residential segregation refers generally to the spatial separation of two or more social groups within a s...
Revolutions
Jean-Pierre Reed
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
Revolutions Introduction Social revolutions are typically conceived as transformative historical events that fundamentally change the social s...
Role Theory
Mariska van der Horst
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2016-07-27
Role TheoryIntroductionConcepts of role theory can be traced back to before 1900, although the use of the term “role” only became common in the 1930s ...
Rural Sociology
Nick Garcia, Linda Lobao
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2018-08-28
Rural SociologyIntroductionRural sociology is a unique area of sociological inquiry. Its institutional development leaves it perhaps the most independ...
Scientific Networks
Elisa Bellotti
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2016-11-28
Scientific NetworksIntroductionScientific networks represent the attempt to map the structure of science using network analysis. In scientific network...
Secularization
Detlef Pollack
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Secularization Introduction Secularization theory was once the dominant sociological pattern of interpretation to describe and explain religio...
Sequence Analysis
Brendan Halpin
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Sequence Analysis Introduction Sequence analysis in sociology refers to a group of approaches to linear (predominantly longitudinal) data that...
Sex versus Gender
Jill Conte
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2018-08-28
Sex versus GenderIntroductionIn the late 1960s and early 1970s, a conceptual distinction between “sex” and “gender” arose in the clinical literature o...
Sexual Identity
Clare Forstie
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Sexual IdentityIntroductionSexual identity research within sociology has largely examined the social contexts of sexuality as a central part of how we...
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