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Criminology · Cultural anthropology Cultural studies · Islamic sociology Media studies · Medical sociology Political sociology · Social anthropology Social psychology · Sociobiology Socioeconomics · Sociolinguistics Statistics · Systems theory

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The following outline is provided as an overview of, and topical guide to, the discipline of sociology.

Contents 1 Essence of sociology 2 History of sociology 3 Key theoretical perspectives in sociology 4 Basic sociology concepts 5 Related fields and subfields 6 Related disciplines 7 Sociological scholars 8 Sociological publications 9 External links 9.1 Professional associations 9.2 Other resources

[edit] Essence of sociology

Basic aspects of sociology:

• Positivism
• Antipositivism
• Structural functionalism
• Conflict theory
• Public sociology
• Social research
• Social theory

[edit] History of sociology

• History of sociology
• Sociology in medieval Islam

[edit] Key theoretical perspectives in sociology

• Critical theory
• Conflict theory
• Cultural theory
• Exchange theory
• Ethnomethodology
• Feminist theory
• Functionalism
• Marxism
• Social Phenomenology
• Postmodernism
• Poststructuralism
• Queer Theory
• Structural functionalism
• Symbolic interactionism
• Systems theory

[edit] Basic sociology concepts

Main articles: List of sociology topics and Subfields of sociology

Alienation -- Bureaucracy -- Civil rights -- Crime -- Community -- Culture -- Discrimination -- Division of labour -- Equality -- Exploitation -- Freedom -- Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft -- Globalization -- Group (sociology) -- Identity (social science) -- Ideology -- Industrialization -- Institution -- Interpersonal relationship -- Justice -- Mass media -- Paradigm -- Political economy -- Popular culture -- Poverty -- Power (sociology) -- Power-knowledge -- Racism -- Rationalization (sociology) -- Sexism -- Social action -- Social capital -- Social change -- Social class -- Social construction -- Social control -- Social justice -- Social movement -- Social network -- Social order -- Social organisation -- Social solidarity -- Social status -- Social stratification -- Social structure -- Socialization -- Society -- Structure and agency -- Sustainable development

[edit] Related fields and subfields

Sociology of ...

• culture
• deviance
• economics
• education
• ethnic relations
• gender
• health
• industry
• knowledge
• law
• military
• politics
• religion
• science
• stratification

[edit] Related disciplines

• Criminology
• Demography
• Social Anthropology/Cultural Anthropology
• Social psychology
• Medical sociology
• Sociolinguistics

[edit] Sociological scholars

[edit] Sociological publications

• List of important publications in sociology

[edit] External links

[edit] Professional associations

• International Sociological Association (ISA)
• African Sociological Association (AfSA)
• American Sociological Association (ASA)
• Australian Sociological Association (TASA)
• British Sociological Association (BSA)
• Brazilian Sociological Society (SBS)
• Canadian Sociological Association (CSA)
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS)
• European Sociological Association (ESA)
• Indian Sociological Society
• Sociological Association of Ireland (SAI)

[edit] Other resources

• Electronic Journal of Sociology
• SocioLog, a directory of sociology resources
• SocioSite, a directory of sociology resources

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