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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...
Sexualities
Nancy L. Fischer
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
SexualitiesIntroductionThe social study of sexuality encompasses investigating sexual practices and behaviors, sexual feelings, sexual orientation, an...
Sexuality Across the Life Course
Shari M. Blumenstock, John DeLamater
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2019-07-31
Sexuality Across the Life CourseIntroductionSexuality is a multidimensional aspect of human life that includes sexual behaviors, sexual feelings, and ...
Simmel, Georg
Jukka Gronow, Olli Pyyhtinen
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2016-09-28
Georg SimmelIntroductionGeorg Simmel (b. 1858–d. 1918) was a German sociologist, cultural theorist, and modernist philosopher. Simmel’s vast oeuvre, c...
Single Parents in Context
Laurie C. Maldonado, Rense Nieuwenhuis
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2019-04-24
Single Parents in ContextIntroductionOne of the most pressing challenges of single-parent families is the concern for their socioeconomic well-being. ...
Skill
Duncan Gallie
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Skill Introduction Changes in the level and structure of skills have been central to debates about social change for the last half-century. Th...
Social Capital
Benjamin Cornwell, Alicia Eads
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Social Capital Introduction The concept of “social capital” is unique in the social sciences in that there is both general interest in its var...
Social Change
Kevin T. Leicht
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Social Change Introduction Social change is the significant alteration of social structure and cultural patterns through time. Social structur...
Social Closure
Juergen Mackert
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Social Closure Introduction “Social closure” is one of the most basic terms and concepts in sociology. Basically, closure refers to processes ...
Social Construction of Crime
Murray Lee
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2017-01-11
Social Construction of CrimeIntroductionCrime is a term generally used to describe a range of behaviors or acts that a society and/or its lawmakers ha...
Social Control
Jason Carmichael
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Social Control Introduction Social control is the study of the mechanisms, in the form of patterns of pressure, through which society maintain...
Social Darwinism
Peter Bowler
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2016-05-26
Social DarwinismIntroductionSocial Darwinism is a complex and controversial topic, a package of ideologies supposedly inspired by biological evolution...
Social Disorganization Theory
Rebecca Wickes, Michelle Sydes
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2017-02-28
Social Disorganization TheoryIntroductionSocial disorganization theory is one of the most enduring place-based theories of crime. Developed by Cliffor...
Social Epidemiology
Amélie Quesnel-Vallée
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Social Epidemiology Introduction Social epidemiology is a subdiscipline of epidemiology that focuses on social factors as determinants of a br...
Social History
Peter N. Stearns
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2015-05-29
Social HistoryIntroductionMany historians contributed to what is now social history before the mid-20th century, but as a field social history was inc...
Social Indicators
Kenneth C. Land, M. Joseph Sirgy
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2016-02-25
Social IndicatorsIntroductionHow are we doing with respect not only to our economic level of living but, more generally, the quality of our lives, our...
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