Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Sociology

RfC on Talk:Biopsychiatry controversy

An RfC has been created on Talk:Biopsychiatry controversy on the subject: "Is the majority viewpoint of the psychiatric profession, and particularly of the psychiatric research community, that the biopsychiatric model of psychiatry is, by and large, accepted or rejected?" Comments from editors involved in this article/project may prove useful. Hrafn^Talk_Stalk 06:49, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Anti-psychiatry

The article Anti-psychiatry is currently tagged for {{POV}}. Since this is within the scope of this project (barely -- but it has your tag), I was wondering if some editors here would like to improve the article to cover more viewpoints -- in particular, the conventional view that psychiatry is ethical and efficacious. At the moment there are problems in the article of WP:UNDUE weight to minority viewpoints, as well as the common problem of insufficient citations.

Also, for those neutral observers -- if you read the article over and don't see any bias, feel free to remove the tag.

CRGreathouse (t | c) 14:24, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

• I removed the POV tag, as it seems to me the article does justice to this alternative movement and is rooted in sources. I added one "fact" request for the claim on professionals and academics following this philosophy. Pundit|utter 15:25, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Kinship

Hello. A couple of us at WikiProject Anthropology have nominated kinship to be the anthropology collaboration of the month. As it's a topic that's also within the scope of your wikiproject, I just thought I'd let you know in case any of you would like to join in the collaboration. So far we've started looking at the main sources on the talk page. Robotforaday (talk) 15:48, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

List of autonomous areas by country is up as a Featured List!

The article, List of autonomous areas by country, is currently up for nomination as a Featured List at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of autonomous areas by country. If you have the time, please vote on the article so that it can be improved if necessarily or promoted if it deserves it. Thanks! Gary King (talk) 16:17, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Test of automated article selection for WP:1.0

Hi, we're testing a system for automated article selection for offline releases, based on the assessment tags you have on article talk pages. We have some test data on a few sociology articles, and we'd really appreciate your feedback. We realise that the list is far from complete, but the important thing is that the ordering of the articles should be right, in terms of importance/quality (with more emphasis on importance). There are three sets of results, ranked using different formulae. Have the articles been ranked in a reasonable order? Please take a look here and leave comments either here or there. Thanks a lot! Walkerma (talk) 17:12, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

New Age communities up for deletion

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/New Age communities - thought there would be some knowledgeable folks to help improve or discuss the article. Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 22:47, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

New form of human trafficking

In February, a travel agent in Ghana chartered a Ghana International Airlines aircraft on the pretext that a group of 'Ghanian' tourists would be spending two weeks in Barbados. The aircraft left Ghana around 1 Feb 08, and was supposed to return to Barbados to 1) deliver any group of 'tourists' and 2) take the first lot back to Ghana. The aircraft didn't arrive as expected on 15 February, and to this day (15 April 08) most of those 'tourists', who turned out end up coming from both Ghana and Nigeria, are still stranded in Barbados, with the Ghanian government dragging its heels on their return. The rest have basically left Barbados for other countries (not long after arriving there). Due to the fact many of these 'tourists' are now working in Barbados (construction, etc), and some have gone on the record that they don't want to go back to Ghana, they want to be allowed to stay in Barbados to work, it is now believed that this is a new form of human trafficking. I think this would make an interesting addition to the Human trafficking article, and could also help build a Barbados-Ghana relations article as well. Having little time to add this, I am posting this at the following: Talk:Human trafficking, WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography, WikiProject Sociology, WikiProject International relations, WikiProject African diaspora, WikiProject Human rights. Perhaps contributors to the Human trafficking article or wikiprojects could look at it further and include it in the article, as this hasn't gathered much attention outside of Barbados and Ghana, and if it is human trafficking, it will change the modus operandi of traffickers. Searches of google and google news for barbados+ghana will return plenty of results, mainly from Ghana or Barbados which can be used. --Россавиа ^Диалог 17:35, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Free people of color

Hi. I'm not sure if this article belongs in this project, but I thought it might. I tagged it. Feel free to look over it and decide whether or not to keep it in the project. Thanks. AgnosticPreachersKid (talk) 04:02, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

• Looks nice. Indeed its belonging to the project is not that clear, but I'm not opposing it neither. Pundit|utter 16:51, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

List of topics: sociology of food

I've merge Sociology of food (which was essentially empty) into List of topics: sociology of food. The result is an equally awful article, except that it's a list... Can someone from the project take a look? It's not even clear to me that this deserves an article. Thanks. Pichpich (talk) 20:15, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Fear of youth

This is just a notice that the article entitled Fear of youth is being considered for deletion because there apparently is no such thing. • Freechild'sup? 19:30, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Demographic transition

I've tagged the article demographic transition for original research and lack of citations. Perhaps someone with the requisite specialist knowledge could have a look at it? There are entire sections of the article which currently seem to be composed largely of OR, and the whole article has few references. Beejaypii (talk) 11:26, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

WHAT???? i think by fear of youth the real tag that should be given is moral panics and folk devils!!!! hee hee —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.195.71.46 (talk) 01:28, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Cremation

Does this fall under the scope of this project? I couldn't think of anything else (we don't have a WP:WikiProject Death). Maybe someone here could assess it for importance (presumably low)? Richard001 (talk) 06:07, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Wikiproject Prisons

If anyone's interested, I've proposed a new wikiproject for the creation of articles regarding specific prisons here. --Cdogsimmons (talk) 20:53, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

American mutilation of Japanese war dead

1945 image of a Japanese soldier's decapitated head hung on a tree branch, presumably by American soldiers.

I have created the article American mutilation of Japanese war dead. There have been requests for additional editors posted on the military topics portal, and to balance that I would like to see people more interested in "softer" issues to also contribute. Perhaps you may know of literature that those with "military" focus are not aware of.

2 good sources on the topic are.

• Simon Harrison "Skull Trophies of the Pacific War: transgressive objects of remembrance" Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (free download)

• James J. Weingartner "Trophies of War: U.S. Troops and the Mutilation of Japanese War Dead, 1941-1945" Pacific Historical Review (available from JSTOR)

• The May 22, 1944. Life Magazine "picture of the week" (Image)

Help getting more editors involved would be very much appreciated. Thank you kindly.--Stor stark7 ^Speak 14:30, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Image Talcott Parsons

Talcott Parsons

User:Thorsten1 has recently removed the image of Talcott Parsons from his article, with the argument:

"remove image - no image at all is still better than this. The colors are hurting people's eyes and it's not even very similar."

I think this is unacceptable. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 14:52, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

If it can be verified that this image is similar to the subject, I'd support its restoration. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 21:27, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your support. This illustration is the work of a Japanese illustrator, which has uploaded a serie of similair portrets, see here. There is no doubt about it that this illustrator has his own style, which you can like or not. Now the illustration is used in the Japanese Wikipedia to illustrate the article Talcott Parsons, and the same in more then ten other Wikipedia's. However in the discussion on Talk:Talcott Parsons#Image Talcott Parsons these arguments doesn't seems to count. I could use a second opinion here. Thanks you. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 22:48, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Sociology requested articles

Wikipedia:Requested articles/Social sciences is missing a section on sociology. I think we should create it, with sociology topics spread through that page, as well as the red links from List of sociology topics and Subfields of sociology.--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 21:27, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

The Sociolinguistics page needs some help. There is currently a Dialectology page, but no information concerning region on the Sociolinguistics page beyond a link to it. It would be wonderful if someone would undertake to create pages related to language and social class, age-linked language variation, and language and gender. Unfortunately I don't have the time to undertake any of these programs myself. I am therefore pleading for your help. I am also posting this message at the talk:Dialectology, User_talk:Linguistlist and talk:Sociolinguistics pages.Cnilep (talk) 20:06, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Community GA Sweeps Review: On Hold

As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria and I'm specifically going over all of the "Culture and Society" articles. I have reviewed Community and believe the article currently meets the majority of the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. I have left this message at this WikiProject's talk page so that any interested members can assist in helping the article keep its GA status. In reviewing the article, I have found there are some issues that may need to be addressed, and I'll leave the article on hold for seven days for them to be fixed. I have left messages on the talk pages of the main contributors of the article and several other related WikiProjects. Please consider helping address the several points that I listed on the talk page of the article, which shouldn't take too long to fix if multiple editors assist in the workload. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 05:02, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

I have also reviewed African American culture and it has a few issues that need to be addressed. I would appreciate any assistance of members of this project on helping improve the article. If you have any questions, let me know and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. --Nehrams2020 (talk) 07:54, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Me again! American middle class could also use your help. Any assistance will be appreciated. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 16:56, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm sure this isn't the last time. Same drill, Fair trade on hold. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 20:52, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Technological singularity is on hold. I have two more articles related to the project so I may be back. --Nehrams2020 (talk) 05:33, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Culture and Gender are also on hold. This should be the last time you hear from me. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 08:04, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of Edupunk

Please comment at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Edupunk --Enric Naval (talk) 16:57, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Articles flagged for cleanup

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Rename proposal for the lists of basic topics

This project's subject has a page in the set of Lists of basic topics.

See the proposal at the Village pump to change the names of all those pages.

The Transhumanist    10:16, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

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Category:WikiProject Sociology

Just to let people know that I've removed the WikiProject category from the main Category:Sociology since content categories shouldn't contain information about Wikipedia projects (as it is self-referential). This was the original situation, but an anon IP editor did add it to the main sociology category a while ago, and since folks here might be used to it appearing in the main Sociology category I thought I'd leave a note. Regards, TwoMightyGods^Persuasion_Necessity 15:28, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Sociology course using Wikipedia

A course I am teaching will have some students contribute to Wikipedia. Please see list of users and articles at Wikipedia:School and university projects/User:Piotrus/Summer 2008 if interested. We would all appreciate if members of WikiProject Sociology would offer advice to the student, and review the progress of their work. The assignment will last till the July 30.--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 17:40, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

That's a great news. Thanks for posting this message. Masterpiece2000 (talk) 05:32, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Peer review for Military sociology now open

The peer review for Military sociology is now open; all editors are invited to participate, and any input there would be appreciated! Thanks! TomStar81 (Talk) 02:28, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Portal:Feminism

Portal:Feminism has had a lot of changes and work recently and is currently up for portal peer review. Comments would be appreciated at Wikipedia:Portal peer review/Feminism/archive1. Thank you, Cirt (talk) 23:39, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

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Invitation to CfD Category:Pseudoskeptic Target Discussion

As a related area within WP, this project might share an interest in this discussion.-- self-ref (nagasiva yronwode) (talk) 19:22, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Rewrote AGIL paradigm

I did a complete rewrite of AGIL Paradigm. I hope this was the way to do this, as I haven't had much experience on editing articles. Jokinen 08:29, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Sociology

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requests for your comments and votes

Here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Non-exclusive ethnic group Thanks, Slrubenstein | Talk 16:13, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Quality of article within project is challenged

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Major edits to article on Culture

Since Culture was delisted as a Good Article and downgraded to a C-Class article in a reassessment two or three weeks ago, the article has undergone many edits, for example adding a great deal of information dealing with the history of the concept of culture in American anthropology. The current article seems to me to be too long and too lopsided. I intend to make substantial edits to the article within the next twelve hours and I hope any one who is interested will comment as they see fit on the outcomes, see Talk:Culture#Substantial edit of article to reduce length and add breadth--AlotToLearn (talk) 23:43, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

I have made many additions to this article. One reason why there is much material from US sources is that American anthropology is distinct in having made "culture" the explicit object of its study. This is not quite so American-centric as it seems, since the Americans largely got the idea from German thinkers (which I added to the article too). By way of contrast, British anthropology explicitly makes "sociality" and "society" its object of study, and French anthropology has mostly (but not entirely) been concerned with universal structures of thought as an object of study. That said, I also added information about British and French research. Frankly, I am puzzled by AlotToLearn's comment about it being lopsided. The article on Quantum Mechanics draws mostly on the work of European (and some American) physicists - not African or Latin American scientists. There are of course reasons for this, be they good or bad, but no one faults the article for being lopsided. Be that as it may, I do not feel I am biased (I teach at a UK institution), and I have simply strived to follow Wikipedia policy by adding significant views from notable sources - all verifiable and reliable. I have put a lot of work into it and AlotToLearn seems to be saying I have wasted my time. But rather than deleted significant views from notable sources, I counter that if the article is lopsided, the solution is to add other significant views from notable sources. FYI I have tried to contact Wikipedians who have expertise in cultural studies, cultural geography, and cultural history ... which all seem to be fields related to "culture." Slrubenstein | Talk 16:28, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

By the way, I have consulted with other editors and we all agree that the article is long and at some point should be divided into different articles. No one contests this. The question is, when? I feel that it makes sense to wait and let other editors work on refining the article and giving full coverage to all the significant views from notable sources per WP:NPOV, and then deciding how best to spin off linked articles. AlotTolearn seems unwilling to learn how to compromise with anyone else. Slrubenstein | Talk 16:35, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Military sociology

I wondered if anyone would like to look at that article. It's in need of wikification and that's how I noticed it, but I've made a suggestion on the talk page that some of the material might fit better in Armed forces. Would be grateful for some more eyes on it. Thanks. Itsmejudith (talk) 20:54, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

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Gift economy

There has been a recent major edit (mostly removals) in gift economy. My personal view is that the article was much stronger before this edit than after, but since I was a major contributor to the previous content, I'm hardly in the position to be an even-handed judge. I'm posting here and in WikiProject Economics, hoping to bring in some people not previously engaged in the article to perhaps help reach a consensus on whether these changes are good or bad. - Jmabel | Talk 00:58, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

List of premature obituaries FLRC

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Lesbian peer review sought

Lesbian has been completely rewritten and is now looking for peer review. All help appreciated. -- Banjeboi 10:01, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

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Social Circle article

I am new at posting on the talk page and also new to the WikiProject Sociology, however, when I read the article on Social circle I couldn't help notice the idea to merge it with Social club." The term "social circle" predates the birth of American Sociology, but was taken up by the early American sociologists during the late 19th century -- and is closer to the current idea of a "dense" social network than a "social club" which has an orientation of affiliation based on mutual avocation or interest. I would keep it separate for its historical significance but cross link it with early definitions of social networks. Drmissio (talk) 05:28, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Content dispute over racial identity, or something to that effect

If anyone feels brave enough to wade through some inspired original research, please take a look at Talk:Person_of_color#List_of_peoples_of_color. ˉˉ^anetode╦╩ 11:31, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

heck, why not merge person of color into racism --> discuss at Talk:Racism#Merger_proposal. Casliber (talk · contribs) 11:36, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Pro-ana

Pro-ana is being peer reviewed. Interesting article to establish NPOV on. Casliber (talk · contribs) 11:27, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Intersexuality

This page is currently listed as WP:SEX and WP:MED. Because there are social and identity aspects to intersex as well, I am looking to propose that this be included as WP:SOCIOLOGY and WP:LGBT as well, so that the relevant aspects can be addressed from those projects, and should RfC's be necessary, they can be broadened beyond the medical perspective. I would appreciate feedback on how this should be managed, as I am relatively new to wikipedia. I have asked whether there are any strong objections, and the two responses so far have been positive. Mish (talk) 23:51, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

I have added the sociology & LGBT project tags to the page, and would appreciate if somebody gets the chance some time to review it and grade it by class and importance. It has been under medicine and sexology/sexuality, but it is evolving towards two sections, one for sociology/LGBT aspects, and one for medical/sexology aspects. Mish (talk) 10:31, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Submission at AfC

Hi, we have had a submission at Articles for creation entitled "Investment Model". I wonder if anyone could take a look at Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Investment Model and see if this article has any potential? I have put my comments at the top. Thanks, — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 19:39, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Missing topics related to social customs

I have updated my page about missing topics related to social customs and I wonder if anyone could have a good look at it. Thank you - Skysmith (talk) 13:48, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

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Proposed merger of When Wish Replaces Thought into Steven Goldberg

Proposed merger of When Wish Replaces Thought into Steven Goldberg - discuss at Talk:Steven_Goldberg#Merger_proposal. Casliber (talk · contribs) 05:03, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Africana womanism

Helo everyone! You may be interested in checking out Africana womanism. Thank you! The Ogre (talk) 12:27, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology

IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology has been nominated for deletion. 70.29.210.130 (talk) 04:30, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Latino Muslims article

The article on Latino Muslims needs your attention. Please review the discussion page.--LatinoMuslim 21:30, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Suggestion for new article

I think that education (undereducation and high school dropout rates) should be included somewhere in this topic area.

What I do know is that, in developed countries, someone who is illiterate (someone who does not read at a proficient level) is a huge risk for many social problems --- poverty, teen pregnancy, drug abuse, unemployment, health problems and mortality, juvenile delinquency, incarceration rates, etc --- and that the social and economic costs of this risk factor is so high that it is difficult to calculate. In developing/third-world countries, higher education levels improves social problems across the board -- birth rates, hunger, etc.

Sociology is not my area of expertise, so I'm not sure where this topic would fit, and I don't feel qualified to create it.

Thoughts?

Rosmoran (talk) 11:51, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

how do you know this??? what sources are you retreiving this information from?? i dont see that illiteracy causes poverty, teen pregnancy, drug abuse, unemployment, health problems and mortality, juvenile delinquency, incarceration rates, etc but i do see that they are related problems maybe caused by a greater issue???? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.195.71.46 (talk) 01:35, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Mechanism

Is anyone familiar with the sociology use of the term "mechanism"? There's a stub article Mechanism (sociology), which refers to mechanism design. Do sociologists tend to use "mechanism" in the same way as in mechanism design? If so, should probably delete the article and/or redirect. If not, is anyone up to adding a bit of clarification or references to the stub? CRETOG8(t/c) 04:46, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Age at first marriage

The article Age at first marriage is in need of much improvement. Right now, the article is merely a list of poorly cited statistics. I've added a list of suggestions to the article's talk page on ways to improve the article, but what I think the article could really use is a good introduction with discussions of how marriage age effects or is affected by things such as culture, cohabitation, family planning and the like.

I'm sure articles such as Marriage might have some good resources to work with, but beyond that, I'm not a sociologist (i'm more of a technical person who would rather work with stats and formatting), so I'm looking to recruit some help. --Kpstewart (talk) 22:12, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

gender

reading this page was very informative and a huge help but am a bit concerned that nothing has been included on merton and cohens views on strain theory and gender. please dont take this as a swipe as i still consider myself (after 2 years of hard study) a beginner in the study of criminology!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.195.71.46 (talk) 01:23, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Need feedback on a merger proposal

I've proposed merging patriarchy (anthropology) with patriarchy. If you have any interest in the topic, please weigh in. Thanks. Kaldari (talk) 18:20, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Category:Markov chains and Category:Markov models

There is a naming dispute considering the correct name for the category for the main article Markov chain and related articles, see WP:CFD. 76.66.192.144 (talk) 03:23, 28 August 2009 (UTC)