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Trust
Karen Cook, Bogdan State
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
TrustIntroductionTrust is a recurrent theme in social science literature. Since the 1970s it has become the focus of a great deal of empirical work in...
Unions and Inequality
Barry Eidlin
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2016-08-30
Unions and InequalityIntroductionAs capitalism spread across Europe and North America over the course of the 19th century, what came to be known as th...
Urban Ethnography
Forrest Stuart
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2021-02-24
Urban EthnographyIntroductionIf ethnography is the study of people as they negotiate their everyday lives, then urban ethnography is the study of how ...
Urban Growth Machine
Harvey Molotch
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2021-05-26
Urban Growth MachineIntroductionWhatever else organizes city politics, economies, or modes of governance, dedication to growth is the main political f...
Urban Inequality in the United States
Christina Jackson
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2019-10-30
Urban Inequality in the United StatesIntroductionUrban inequality is a multidisciplinary field that incorporates political economists, geographers, so...
Values
Eva Jaspers
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2016-10-27
ValuesIntroductionValues have been an important topic of sociological research for over a century. The classical sociologists considered values to be ...
Veblen, Thorstein
Sidney Plotkin
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2015-06-29
Thorstein Veblen Introduction Thorstein Veblen (b. 1857–d. 1929) ranks among the most original, controversial, and elusive minds in modern soc...
Violence
Juergen Mackert, Eddie Hartmann
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2015-09-29
Violence Introduction Violence is a ubiquitous and quotidian social phenomenon. At the same time it is both a highly problematic and a dispute...
Visual Arts, Music, and Aesthetic Experience
Fiona Greenland
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2017-06-27
Visual Arts, Music, and Aesthetic ExperienceIntroductionArtistic fields are the spaces of activity in which art is produced, evaluated, and interprete...
Wallerstein, Immanuel
Kristin Plys
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2016-10-27
Immanuel WallersteinIntroductionImmanuel Maurice Wallerstein, born on 28 September 1930, is best known for having developed world-systems analysis, a ...
Wealth
Yuval Elmelech
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2016-08-30
WealthIntroductionSociological research on stratification and economic well-being in industrial nations has focused, almost exclusively, on human capi...
Weber, Max
Alan Sica
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Max Weber Introduction A principal founder of modern sociology, Max Weber Jr. was born 21 April 1864, to a prominent Prussian lawyer/politicia...
Welfare States
Jeremy Seekings
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Welfare States Introduction The growth of the welfare state has been a central feature of the societies—capitalist, increasingly urban, and mos...
Welfare, Race, and the American Imagination
Joan Maya Mazelis, Stephen Pimpare
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Welfare, Race, and the American ImaginationIntroductionThis entry includes a variety of sources on American beliefs about welfare and race. There is a...
Whiteness
Cara Cancelmo, Jennifer C. Mueller
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2019-11-26
WhitenessIntroductionAcross studies of racialized modernity, critical scholars since W. E. B. Du Bois have recognized that no analysis of racism is co...
Women’s Employment and Economic Inequality Between Households
Rense Nieuwenhuis
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2020-10-28
Women’s Employment and Economic Inequality between HouseholdsIntroductionThis article provides an overview of the emerging literature on how trends in...
Work and Employment, Sociology of
Steve Vallas
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Sociology of Work and Employment Introduction The sociology of work and employment is concerned with the social relations, normative codes, and...
Work/Life Balance
Misun Lim, Joya Misra
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2019-03-27
Work/Life BalanceIntroductionThere are many different ways to define work–life balance. Some scholars emphasize that work–life balance requires balanc...
Workplace Flexibility
Wen Fan
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Workplace FlexibilityIntroductionAs communication technologies develop and as organizations create policies to deal with global expansion and work−lif...
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