Sociology/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Social science [r]: Any of a number of academic disciplines which study human social behavior, institutions and relations. ^[e]

Subtopics

•  gender: Gender is most often attributed to human beings or mammals as a dynamic, complex aggregate of learned behaviors and social or cultural constructs. Gender is distinguished from physiological and reproductive sexual traits, i.e. that individuals are male or female. ^[e]
• Historical sociology: Application of sociological insights, theories and concepts to historical topics. ^[e]
• Inequality: Add brief definition or description
•  Marriage (institution): Formally recognized long-term relationship between persons. ^[e]
• Marxist sociology: Add brief definition or description
• Medical sociology: Add brief definition or description
•  Military sociology: The study of the motivations and interactions of soldiers as members of military organizations ^[e]
• Philosophy of sociology: Add brief definition or description
• Political sociology: Subfield of sociology that deals with fundamental questions of social behavior, social relations and social institutions in politics. ^[e]
• Small group sociology: Add brief definition or description
• Social change: Add brief definition or description
•  Social class: The hierarchical distinctions between groups in societies or cultures. ^[e]
• Social disorganization: Add brief definition or description
• Social environment: Add brief definition or description
• Social gerontology: A multi-disciplinary social science studying the social behavior of older people, and the social institutions that impact human aging. Basic social sciences including Sociology, Anthropology, Political science, Economics, and applied social sciences and professions, including Social work, Public administration, Public health and Architecture and numerous other sciences, disciplines and professions, including those in medical fields and specialties may all be involved in aging studies. ^[e]
• Social institution: Add brief definition or description
• Social problem: Add brief definition or description
• Sociology of religion: The application of sociological insights and understandings to understanding the organization, institutions, beliefs and practices of organized religion. ^[e]
• Sociology of science: The application of sociological insights and understandings to understanding the organization, institutions, theories and practices of organized science. ^[e]
• Symbolic interaction: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

•  anthropology: The holistic study of humankind; from the Greek words anthropos ("human") and logia ("study"). ^[e]
•  applied social sciences: Applied social sciences are those social science disciplines, professions and occupations which seek to use basic social science research and theory to improve the daily life of communities, organizations and persons. ^[e]
• Social anthropology: Add brief definition or description
• Social philosophy: Add brief definition or description
• Urban studies: Add brief definition or description

Important Sociologists

• August Comte: Add brief definition or description
• Emile Durkheim: Add brief definition or description
• Amitai Etzioni: Add brief definition or description
• John Kitsuse: Add brief definition or description
• Karl Marx: Add brief definition or description
•  Talcott Parsons: Add brief definition or description
• Malcolm Spector: Add brief definition or description
• Herbert Spencer: Add brief definition or description
• Anselm Strauss: Add brief definition or description
• Max Weber: Add brief definition or description