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[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] Homosexuality rewrite

Is it about time to rewrite this article to conform to MOS and concentrate on accuracy, neutrality, comprehensiveness, and the best quality sources? Is it possible in an article of such controversy? I tend to hope a rewrite can be accomplished without the fuss of ArbCom, possibly as a model for Wikipedians working together from vastly different approaches.

I have been approached to rewrite the article by myself, but I do not wish to do that. I already wrote the Lesbian article and several other high-profile LGBT articles. I do not wish to write the core article on LGBT issues using my perceptions of what should be in this one. Wikipedia is a community effort, and there is no reason why this article cannot be constructed by many of us with the same goals in mind.

Please see Talk:Homosexuality#Rewrite_agenda. Thanks. --Moni3 (talk) 16:45, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Merger discussion

I've proposed merging patriarchy (anthropology) with patriarchy. If you have any interest in the topic, please feel free to weigh in. Thanks. Kaldari (talk) 15:55, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Effort to improve the Cult entry

There is an ongoing effort to improve the entry for Cult, which is in horrible shape. Please see the talk page for some discussion. Please also see the ongoing rewrite at Talk:Cult/Cult Sandbox. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. In general the sociological POV on new religious movements/"cults" across the encyclopedia is not particularly well represented. Something to keep in mind for those here interested in religion topics. Thanks.PelleSmith (talk) 15:45, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] 'I' and 'me' by George Mead

Is it not supposed to be the other way around, that the Me is the social and thinking part.

In "Franzoi, S. L. (2006). Social psychology (4th ed.). Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill" page 58 it is the other way around and it is a very popular book.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'I'_and_the_'me' —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jurijalive.dk (talk • contribs) 15:21, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Sociology mainpage: Improvements, Quality review

I've spent hours and hours on the main sociology page over the past two months. I think it's much better now - the scope and topics sections needs work, but is at least fairly large and comprehensive now. Should we get the article re-evaluated for quality? Any other comments? --Tomsega (talk) 20:54, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Race and crime in the United States

My attention was recently drawn to this page. Could some experts here weigh in on its talk page? I have the sense that a great deal of synthesis (and perhaps original research as well) is has taken place in its composition. Thanks. Fowler&fowler «Talk» 15:13, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

And could those wishing to join the discussion please review the literature in the bibliography before forming an opinion on this issue? Thanks, —Aryaman (talk) 11:07, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Wikiproject:Social movements

Would there be editors interested in developing such a Wikiproject? Please direct reples here so we can centralize the discussion. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 22:25, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Death

Please join discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Death regarding forming a joint task force with WikiProject Biology. --Geniac (talk) 02:49, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Sociological positivism

This article urgently needs improving!

[edit] Platonic love & Romantic friendship

Both of these articles seem to have issues...I seem to remember the platonic love article being well rounded a while back, but now it and romantic friendship both seem to be very homosexually focused (and the platonic love article a somewhat incoherent mess). They were both unhelpful when I was researching heterosexual forms of the same the other day. I would love to help improve the articles, but I admit my knowledge on them is somewhat lacking. Ks0stm ^(T•C•G) 01:25, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Userbox

I've created {{User WPSOC}}, for public display of our allegiance and such. Enjoy! --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 22:45, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Science Fiction?

When adding the Wikiproject Sociology userbox, the Category of "Wikiproject Science Fiction members" is also automatically added to one's user page. I suspect the latter userbox was used as a template for the former, but it is not working correctly; needs repair! DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 18:11, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Corrected. :-) DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 18:14, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Sociological educational assignment needs reviewers

Please see Wikipedia_talk:Good_article_nominations#Request_for_reviewers_for_educational_assignments_GANs. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 20:47, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Social equality

The current article at Affirmative Action is fully about social equality with various phrases such as "positive action" redirecting there. I have suggested moving to and merging with Social equality and both are part of this project. It shouldn't require much change to either articles basis so I could do it but please go ahead and chime in at it on Talk:Affirmative_action#Social_equality or Talk:Social_equality#Affirmative_Action ~ R.T.G 08:57, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] RfC: UFO religion

Please see Talk:UFO_religion#RfC_Church_of_the_SubGenius. Cirt (talk) 12:27, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Relevant AFD

Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Core Knowledge Perspective. Thank you for your time, Cirt (talk) 08:57, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Asian fetish

This article could use some new eyes with expert knowledge/mediation/constructive input; I'm posting to several WikiProjects that seem relevant and to RfC. I have already done so on WP:Cleanup (other ideas just about where to seek help are also welcome). Article was created 06:51, 20 April 2004 by an IP. There's thirteen talk page archives and five Articles for Deletion discussions; there are 122 watchers and about 400 daily page views on average. Has never reached much of a consensus regarding the subject, content or sources AFAIK. Thanks! Шизомби (talk) 03:44, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

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