Sociology Basics (Magill's Choice)
Publisher: Salem Press
Published: August 2000
Place of publication: Pasadena, Calif.
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 616
ISBN-13: 9780893562052
Subjects: Sociology, Social Studies; Social Science; Reference; Sociology - General; Encyclopedias; Sociology
Table of contents: title: v.1. Anomie and deviance -- Bureaucracies -- Capitalism -- Caste systems -- Causal relationships -- Churches, denominations, and sects -- Civil religion and politics -- Class consciousness and class conflict -- Collective behavior -- Conflict theory -- Cultural and structural assimilation -- Cultural norms and sanctions -- Cultural transmission theory of deviance -- Culture : material and expressive culture -- Culture and language -- Culture of poverty -- Democracy -- Demographic factors and social change -- Demography -- Deviance : analysis and overview -- Deviance : functions and dysfunctions -- Dramaturgy -- Education -- Education : conflict theory views -- Education : functionalist perspectives -- Ethnicity and ethnic groups -- Ethnography -- Ethnomethodology -- Family : functionalist versus conflict theory views -- Functionalism -- Gender inequality : analysis and overview -- Gender inequality : biological determinist views -- History of sociology -- Horticultural economic systems -- Hunting and gathering economic systems -- Hypotheses and hypothesis testing -- Immigration and emigration -- Industrial and postindustrial economies -- Industrial sociology -- Knowledge -- Labeling and deviance -- Legitimacy and authority -- Looking-glass self -- Marriage types -- Marxism -- Medical sociology -- Microsociology -- v. 2. Modernization and world-system theories -- Political sociology -- Poverty : analysis and overview -- Power elite -- Prejudice and discrimination : Merton’s paradigm -- Prejudice and stereotyping -- Protestant ethic and capitalism -- Qualitative research -- Quantitative research -- Race and racial groups -- Race relations : the race-class debate -- Racial and ethnic stratification -- Religion -- Religion : functionalist analyses -- Religion : Marxist and conflict theory views -- Role conflict and role strain -- Samples and sampling techniques -- Secularization in western society -- Significant and generalized others -- Social change : sources of change -- Social groups -- Social mobility : analysis and overview -- Social stratification : analysis and overview -- Social stratification : functionalist perspectives -- Social stratification : Marxist perspectives -- Social stratification : Weberian perspectives -- Socialization : religion -- Socialization : the family -- Socialization : the mass media -- Sociobiology and the nature nurture debate -- Sociology defined -- Statuses and roles -- Structural-strain theory of deviance -- Subcultures and countercultures -- Suicide -- Surveys -- Symbolic interaction -- Technology and social change -- Urbanization -- Validity and reliability in measurement -- Values and value systems -- War and revolution -- Workplace socialization -- Glossary.