Outline of sociology
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the discipline of sociology:
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Sociology – the study of society[1] using various methods of empirical investigation[2] and critical analysis[3] to understand human social activity, from the micro level of individual agency and interaction to the macro level of systems and social structure.[4]
Nature of sociology
Definition
Sociology can be described as all of the following:
- The study of society.
- Academic discipline – body of knowledge given to - or received by - a disciple (student); a branch or sphere of knowledge, or field of study, that an individual has chosen to specialise in.
- Field of science – widely recognized category of specialized expertise within science, and typically embodies its own terminology and nomenclature. Such a field will usually be represented by one or more scientific journals, where peer reviewed research is published. There are many sociology-related scientific journals.
- Social science – field of academic scholarship that explores aspects of human society.
Overall
Key themes across sociological research
Branches of sociology
- Sociology of architecture
- Sociology of art
- Sociology of autism
- Sociology of the body
- Sociology of culture
- Sociology of death
- Sociology of deviance
- Sociology of disaster
- Sociology of education
- Economic sociology
- Sociology of emotions
- Environmental sociology
- Feminist sociology
- Sociology of the family
- Sociology of food
- Sociology of gender
- Sociology of generations
- Sociology of health and illness
- Sociology of human consciousness
- Humanistic sociology
- Sociology of immigration
- Industrial sociology
- Sociology of the Internet
- Jealousy sociology
- Sociology of Jewry
- Sociology of knowledge
- Sociology of language
- Sociology of law
- Sociology of leisure
- Sociology of literature
- Marxist sociology
- Mathematical sociology
- Medical sociology
- Military sociology
- Sociology of music
- Real utopian sociology
- Sociology of peace, war, and social conflict
- Sociology of philosophy
- Social psychology (sociology)
- Public sociology
- Sociology of punishment
- Sociology of race and ethnic relations
- Sociology of religion
- Sociology of scientific knowledge (Sociology of the history of science)
- Sociology of sociology
- Sociology of space
- Sociology of sport
- Sociology of terrorism
- Urban sociology
- Visual sociology
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary fields involving sociology
- Agnotology
- Anthrozoology
- Area studies
- Astrosociology
- Behavioral economics
- Communication studies
- Community informatics
- Critical management studies
- Cultural studies
- Demography
- Development studies
- Development theory
- Disability studies
- Environmental studies
- Food studies
- Futures studies
- Gender studies
- Geodemography
- Global studies
- Gerontology
- Historical sociology
- Human ecology
- Internet studies
- Leisure studies
- Political ecology
- Political sociology
- Organizational studies
- Science studies
- Science, technology and society
- Social architecture
- Social construction of technology
- Social engineering
- Social epistemology
- Social geography
- Social informatics
- Social philosophy
- Social studies of finance
- Sociobiology
- Sociocybernetics
- Sociolinguistics
- Sociomusicology
- Technology and society
- Urban studies
- Victimology
- World-systems theory
History of sociology
- Timeline of sociology (1810s)
- Timeline of sociology (1820s)
- Timeline of sociology (1830s)
- Timeline of sociology (1840s)
- Timeline of sociology (1850s)
- Timeline of sociology (1860s)
- Timeline of sociology (1870s)
- Timeline of sociology (1880s)
- Timeline of sociology (1890s)
- Timeline of sociology (1900s)
- Timeline of sociology (1910s)
- Timeline of sociology (1920s)
- Timeline of sociology (1930s)
- Timeline of sociology (1940s)
- Timeline of sociology (1950s)
- Timeline of sociology (1960s)
- Timeline of sociology (1970s)
- Timeline of sociology (1980s)
- Timeline of sociology (1990s)
- Timeline of sociology (2000s)
Theoretical perspectives in sociology
Positivism
- Positivism (Empirical sociology)
- Analytical sociology
- Computational sociology
- Logical positivism
- Rational choice theory
Structural
Challenging structure
Social interactions
- Dramaturgy (sociology)
- Ethnomethodology
- Figurational sociology
- Phenomenology (sociology)
- Symbolic interactionism
Social justice
Applied
- Pure sociology
- Policy sociology
Ecological
Levels of analysis
- Macrosociology
- Mesosociology
- Microsociology
Methodology and methods in sociology
- Comparative sociology
- Content analysis
- Discourse analysis
- Ethnomethodology
- Sociography
- Sociomapping
- Sociometry
- Social experiment
General sociology concepts
- Attitude
- Alienation
- Beliefs
- Bureaucracy
- Collective behavior
- Civil inattention
- Civil rights
- Crime
- Commodity fetishism
- Community (outline)
- Consumption (consumerism)
- Cultural capital
- Culture (outline)
- Discrimination
- Division of labour
- Equality (Social inequality)
- Equity
- Exploitation
- Family
- Freedom
- Gemeinschaft and gesellschaft
- Globalization
- Group
- Ideal type
- Identity
- Ideology
- Industrialization
- Inequality
- Institution
- Interpersonal relationship (outline)
- Justice
- Lifestyle
- Mass media
- Modernity
- Nature versus nurture
- Organization
- Organizational behavior
- Paradigm shift
- Political economy
- Popular culture
- Postmodernity
- Poverty
- Power
- Power-knowledge
- Racism
- Rationalisation
- Reflexivity
- Religion
- Secularisation
- Sexism
- Social action
- Social capital
- Social change
- Social class
- Social complexity
- Social conflict
- Social construction
- Social cohesion
- Social control
- Social criticism
- Social environment
- Social evolutionism
- Social justice
- Social media
- Social mobility
- Social movement
- Social norm
- Social network
- Social order
- Social organisation
- Social problems
- Social solidarity
- Social status
- Social stratification
- Social structure
- Social system
- Social theory
- Socialization
- Society (outline)
- Structure and agency
- Sustainable development
- Values
- World view
Sociology by location
- Sociology in China
- Sociology in Japan
- Sociology in Poland
- Sociology in Russia
- Sociology in Turkey
Sociologists
Sociological publications
Sociology journals
Magazines
- Contexts
- MANAS Journal
- Polemic
- Salmagundi
- Youth Studies Australia
Sociological associations
Sociological associations
Academies
- College of Sociology, Paris, 1937–39
- New School for Social Research, New York
- Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago, Chicago
- Uzhhorod National University Department of Sociology and Social Work, Uzhhorod
- Atlanta Sociological Laboratory, Atlanta, 1895–1924[5]
Related fields
See also
- Bibliography of sociology
- Engaged theory
- History of the social sciences
- Index of sociology articles
- Index of sociology of food articles
- Index of urban sociology articles
- Outline of organizational theory
- Outline of science
References
- "Comte, Auguste, A Dictionary of Sociology (3rd Ed), John Scott & Gordon Marshall (eds), Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-19-860986-8, ISBN 978-0-19-860986-5
- Ashley D, Orenstein DM (2005). Sociological theory: Classical statements (6th ed.). Boston, Massachusetts, US: Pearson Education. pp. 3–5, 32–36.
- Ashley D, Orenstein DM (2005). Sociological theory: Classical statements (6th ed.). Boston, Massachusetts, US: Pearson Education. pp. 3–5, 38–40.
- Giddens, Anthony, Duneier, Mitchell, Applebaum, Richard. 2007. Introduction to Sociology. Sixth Edition. New York: W.W. Norton and Company. Chapter 1.
- Wright II, Earl (February 2010). "Atlanta: Birthplace of American Sociology". American Sociological Association. 38 (2): 1–6. Retrieved April 19, 2020.
External links
- SocioSite, a directory of sociology resources
- Sections of American Sociological Association
- Research Committees and Themes of International Sociological Association, AIS
- (in French) Comités de Recherche de l'Association internationale des sociologues de langue française, AISLF
- (in French) Liste des réseaux thématiques de l'Association Française de Sociologie, AFS
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