Outline of sociology
Appearance
Part of a series on |
Sociology |
---|
![]() |
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the discipline of sociology:
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
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
- Positivism
- Antipositivism
- Structural functionalism
- Conflict theory
- Public sociology
- Social research
- Social theory
- Feminism
Branches of sociology
- Analytical sociology
- Applied sociology
- Architectural sociology
- Behavioral sociology
- Chinese sociology
- Collective behavior
- Comparative sociology
- Computational sociology
- Critical sociology
- Cultural sociology
- Digital sociology
- Dramaturgical sociology
- Economic sociology
- Educational sociology
- Empirical sociology
- Environmental sociology
- Evolutionary sociology
- Feminist sociology
- Figurational sociology
- Historical sociology
- Humanistic sociology
- Industrial sociology
- Internet sociology
- Interpretive sociology
- Jealousy sociology
- Macrosociology
- Marxist sociology
- Mathematical sociology
- Medical sociology
- Mesosociology
- Microsociology
- Military sociology
- Natural resource sociology
- Phenomenological sociology
- Policy sociology
- Polish sociology
- Political sociology
- Psychoanalytic sociology
- Public sociology
- Pure sociology
- Rural sociology
- Social inequality
- Social psychology (sociology)
- Sociology of aging
- Sociology of agriculture
- Sociology of architecture
- Sociology of art
- Sociology of autism
- Sociology of childhood
- Sociology of conflict
- Sociology of culture
- Sociology of cyberspace
- Sociology of deviance
- Sociology of development
- Sociology of disaster
- Sociology of education
- Sociology of emotions
- Sociology of fatherhood
- Sociology of finance
- Sociology of food
- Sociology of gender
- Sociology of generations
- Sociology of globalization
- Sociology of government
- Sociology of health and illness
- Sociology of human consciousness
- Sociology of immigration
- Sociology of knowledge
- Sociology of language
- Sociology of law
- Sociology of leisure
- Sociology of literature
- Sociology of markets
- Sociology of marriage
- Sociology of motherhood
- Sociology of music
- Sociology of natural resources
- Sociology of organizations
- Sociology of peace, war, and social conflict
- Sociology of philosophy
- Sociology of punishment
- Sociology of race and ethnic relations
- Sociology of religion
- Sociology of risk
- Sociology of science
- Sociology of scientific knowledge
- Sociology of social change
- Sociology of social movements
- Sociology of sociology
- Sociology of space
- Sociology of sport
- Sociology of technology
- Sociology of terrorism
- Sociology of the body
- Sociology of the family
- Sociology of the history of science
- Sociology of the Internet
- Sociology of work
- Sociography
- Structural sociology
- Theoretical sociology
- Urban sociology
- Visual sociology
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary fields involving sociology
- Agnotology
- Agrarian studies
- Anthrozoology
- Area studies
- Behavioral economics
- Communication studies
- Community informatics
- Conflict theory
- Criminology
- Critical management studies
- Cultural studies
- Demography
- Development studies
- Disability studies
- Environmental studies
- Food studies
- Future studies
- Gender studies
- Geodemography
- Global studies
- Gerontology
- Human ecology
- Internet studies
- Leisure studies
- Political ecology
- Organizational studies
- Science studies
- Science, technology and society
- Social architecture
- Social conflict theory
- Social engineering
- Social epistemology
- Social geography
- Social informatics
- Social problems
- Social philosophy
- Social studies of finance
- Social theory
- Sociobiology
- Sociocybernetics
- Sociolinguistics
- Sociomapping
- Sociometry
- Sociomusicology
- Systems theory
- Urban studies
- Victimology
- World-systems theory
History of sociology
- History of sociology
- Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) – in his Muqaddimah (later translated as Prolegomena in Latin), the introduction to a seven volume analysis of universal history, was the first to advance social philosophy and social science in formulating theories of social cohesion and social conflict. He is thus considered by some to be the forerunner of sociology.[5][6][7][8][9][10]
- History of sociology in Poland
- Timeline 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
- Conflict theory
- Critical realism
- Critical theory
- Cultural theory
- Ethnomethodology
- Exchange theory
- Feminist theory
- Human ecology
- Logical positivism
- Marxist sociology
- Postcolonialism & subaltern theory
- Postmodernism
- Poststructuralism
- Psychoanalytic sociology
- Queer theory
- Rational choice theory
- Relational sociology
- Social constructionism
- Sociocultural evolution
- Social phenomenology
- Structural functionalism
- Structuralism
- Symbolic interactionism
- Systems theory
- World-systems theory
General sociology concepts
- Attitude
- Alienation
- Beliefs
- Bureaucracy
- Civil inattention
- Civil rights
- Crime
- Commodity fetishism
- Community (outline)
- Consumption (consumerism)
- Cultural capital
- Culture (outline)
- Discrimination
- Division of labour
- Equality
- 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
- 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 construction
- Social cohesion
- Social control
- Social environment
- Social evolutionism
- Social justice
- Social media
- Social mobility
- Social movement
- Social norm
- Social network
- Social order
- Social organisation
- Social solidarity
- Social status
- Social stratification
- Social structure
- Socialization
- Society (outline)
- Structure and agency
- Sustainable development
- Values
- World view
Sociologists
Sociological publications
Sociological associations
Academies
- College of Sociology, Paris, 1937–39
- New School for Social Research, New York
Related fields
- Global studies
- Human geography
- Law
- Political science
- Social anthropology/Cultural anthropology
- Social history
- Sociolinguistics
- Social research
See also
- Outline of science
- Bibliography of sociology
- Index of sociology articles
- Index of sociology of food articles
- Index of urban sociology articles
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, USA: Pearson Education. pp. 3–5, 32–36.
- ^ Ashley D, Orenstein DM (2005). Sociological theory: Classical statements (6th ed.). Boston, Massachusetts, USA: 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.
- ^ H. Mowlana (2001). "Information in the Arab World", Cooperation South Journal 1.
- ^ Dr. S. W. Akhtar (1997). "The Islamic Concept of Knowledge", Al-Tawhid: A Quarterly Journal of Islamic Thought & Culture 12 (3).
- ^ Amber Haque (2004), "Psychology from Islamic Perspective: Contributions of Early Muslim Scholars and Challenges to Contemporary Muslim Psychologists", Journal of Religion and Health 43 (4): 357-377 [375].
- ^ Enan, Muhammed Abdullah (2007). Ibn Khaldun: His Life and Works. The Other Press. p. v. ISBN 983-9541-53-6.
- ^ Alatas, S. H. (2006). "The Autonomous, the Universal and the Future of Sociology". Current Sociology. 54: 7–23 [15]. doi:10.1177/0011392106058831.
- ^ Warren E. Gates (July–September 1967). "The Spread of Ibn Khaldun's Ideas on Climate and Culture". Journal of the History of Ideas. 28 (3). University of Pennsylvania Press: 415–422 [415]. doi:10.2307/2708627. JSTOR 2708627.
External links
- Electronic Journal of Sociology
- SocioLog, a directory of sociology resources
- SocioSite, a directory of sociology resources
- Sections of American Sociological Association
- Research Committees and Themes of International Sociological Association, AIS
- Template:Fr icon Comités de Recherche de l'Association internationale des sociologues de langue française, AISLF
- Template:Fr icon Liste des réseaux thématiques de l'Association Française de Sociologie, AFS
- Social Phenomena by Teng Wang