Sociology EssentialsREA's Essentials provide quick and easy access to critical information in a variety of different fields, ranging from the most basic to the most advanced. As its name implies, these concise, comprehensive study guides summarize the essentials of the field covered. Essentials are helpful when preparing for exams, doing homework and will remain a lasting reference source for students, teachers, and professionals. Sociology reviews sociological perspectives, methods of research, socialization and self-formation, cultures, society, theories of societies, social structure and the social process, social groups and organizations, deviance, law and crime, the family, social stratification, gender and sexuality, ethnicity and race, aging and the elderly, health care, collective behavior, social movements and social change. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action animals ascribed status associated attach meaning authoritarian authority basic basis beliefs biological bureaucracy characteristic Charles Horton Cooley child Collective Behavior conception conflict conform consists context defined Deviance represents deviant behavior elements Emile Durkheim endogamy Erving Goffman ethic Ethnocentrism example exists exogamy expected experience focused Folkways goals horticultural and pastoral human ideal type ideas individual inequality institutions interest involved Lawrence Kohlberg leaders living marriage Marx Master Status matrilocality Max Weber moral Nonmaterial norms observed one's organization orientation Parkinson's Law particular pattern peer group person Peter Principle political population position primary group production race rational Rational-legal authority refers relationships relatively religion religious response role rules sanctions sector sense situation soci social control social groups social interaction social order social structure sociologists sociology Stage Status Set symbol theory thought tion types of social values violation wealth