The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the discipline of sociology:
Sociology – the study of society using various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to understand human social activity, from the micro level of individual agency and interaction to the macro level of systems and social structure.
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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.
Essence of sociology
Overall
Key themes across sociological research
- Globalization
- Human behavior
- Human environmental impact
- Identity
- Industrial revolutions 3 & 4
- Social complexity
- Social environment
- Social equality
- Social equity
- Social power
- Social stratification
- Social structure
Branches of sociology
See also: Category:Subfields 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
- Historical sociology
- 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
See also: Category:Interdisciplinary subfields of 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
See also: Category: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
See also: Category:Sociological theories
Approaches
Positivism
Critical realist
Structural
- Organizational theory
- Sociocultural evolution
- Structural functionalism
- Systems theory
- World-systems theory
Challenging structure
Social interactions
- Dramaturgy (sociology)
- Ethnomethodology
- Figurational sociology
- Phenomenology (sociology)
- Symbolic interactionism
Behavioural
Social justice
- Conflict theories
- Feminist theory
- Intersectionality
- Marxism (Marxist sociology - Social conflict theory)
- Postcolonialism & subaltern theory
- Queer theory
Applied
Ecological
Levels of analysis
Methodology and methods in sociology
See also: Category:Methods in sociology
- Comparative sociology
- Content analysis
- Discourse analysis
- Ethnomethodology
- Sociography
- Sociomapping
- Sociometry
- Social experiment
General sociology concepts
See also the categories Sociological terminology and Social 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
Sociologists
Sociological publications
Sociology journals Magazines
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, 1895–19245
Related fields
- Global studies
- Law
- Political science
- Social anthropology/Cultural anthropology
- Social history
- Socioeconomics
- Sociolinguistics
- Social research
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
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
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 /wiki/ISBN_(identifier) ↩
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. https://www.asanet.org/sites/default/files/savvy/footnotes/feb10/am_2010.html ↩