Sociology - Oxford Bibliographies
Contingent Work
Zoltán Lippényi
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Contingent WorkIntroductionThe past decades have seen a remarkable increase in new forms of employment in work organizations that differ from traditio...
Conversation Analysis
Michael Emmison
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Conversation Analysis Introduction Conversation analysis (hereafter CA) is a rigorously empirical approach to the investigation of social acti...
Corrections
Marie Segrave
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
CorrectionsIntroductionCorrections is a term used to refer to a key component of the criminal justice system. It is used both as an applied term, refe...
Cosmopolitanism
Gerard Delanty, Špela Močnik
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2015-05-29
Cosmopolitanism Introduction The term cosmopolitanism derives from the Greek word kosmopolites, meaning “a citizen of the world.” It was first...
Criminology
Sara Wakefield
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Criminology Introduction Criminology is a broad subfield drawing from a number of academic disciplines. Beyond its historically strong ties to ...
Cultural Capital
David L. Swartz
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Cultural CapitalIntroductionCultural capital is used conceptually and researched empirically as a staple in much contemporary social scientific resear...
Cultural Classification and Codes
Vincent Yung, Wendy Espeland
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2018-05-24
Cultural Classification and CodesIntroductionClassification is fundamental to social life. It is the prerequisite to all other social activity. Before...
Cultural Omnivorousness
Irmak Karademir Hazir
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2015-08-31
Cultural OmnivorousnessIntroductionThe term cultural omnivorousness was first introduced to the cultural consumption literature by Richard Peterson in...
Cultural Production and Circulation
Jennifer C. Lena, Vaughn Schmutz
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2017-02-28
Cultural Production and CirculationIntroductionThe production perspective in the sociology of culture emerged in the 1970s as an alternative to “refle...
Culture and Networks
Neha Gondal
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2017-06-27
Culture and NetworksIntroductionSocial networks are a measure of relationships between entities (such as persons, organizations, states, and even conc...
Culture, Sociology of
Brian Steensland
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Sociology of Culture Introduction Culture is the symbolic-expressive dimension of social life. In common usage, the term “culture” can mean the...
Democracy
Robert M. Fishman
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2017-02-28
DemocracyIntroductionDemocracy has become the overwhelmingly predominant form of government in the world’s most-advanced societies and is increasingly...
Demography
Rebecca Kippen
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Demography Introduction Demography is the study of human populations, in particular their size and composition, and how they change through fe...
Development
Andrew Schrank
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Development Introduction Development occupies an ambiguous position in contemporary sociology. It is simultaneously a cause (or correlate) of p...
Deviance
Dick Hobbs
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Deviance Introduction The study of deviant behavior, although now partially obscured by the relentless expansion of criminology, remains central...
Discrimination
Issa Kohler-Hausmann
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Discrimination Introduction Discrimination is an action or practice that excludes, disadvantages, or merely differentiates between individuals ...
Doing Gender
Alexandra Macht
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2019-09-25
Doing GenderIntroductionTheoretically, the term “doing gender” first appeared in Harold Garfinkel’s case study of the intersexual Agnes in 1967, as an...
Du Bois, W.E.B.
Rashawn Ray
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
W. E. B. Du Bois Introduction William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (b. 1868–d. 1963) was a pioneering social theorist, methodologist, public sociolo...
Durkheim, Émile
Alexander Riley
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Émile Durkheim Introduction David Émile Durkheim was born on 15 April 1858, in Épinal, France, in the region of Lorraine. His influential, co...
Economic Institutions and Institutional Change
Kim Pernell
Subject: Sociology »
Date Added: 2021-03-24
Economic Institutions and Institutional ChangeIntroductionInterest in the institutions that structure economic behavior has a long history in sociolog...
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