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Oct 3, 2022 · The term “accounting process” refers to how people make sense of or “account for” the actions they commit using their common sense.
Dec 3, 2020 · Summary. Within social theory, the term ‘modernity’ is most often used to refer to societies that are built on the principles of individual freedom and instrumental mastery.Furthermore, such societies are assumed to have emerged in Western Europe and North America from the late eighteenth century onwards.All debate notwithstanding, this has ...
- Jeff Manza, Northwestern University
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- How to use this Dictionary
Gianfranco Poggi, Universita di Trento Beth Schneider, University of California, Santa Barbara Susan Silbey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Carol Smart, University of Leeds The Cambridge Dictionary of
Gabriel Abend, Northwestern University Gary L. Albrecht, University of Illinois, Chicago Jeffrey Alexander, Yale University Tomas Almaguer, San Francisco State University Patrick Baert, University of Cambridge Jack Barbalet, University of Leicester James Beckford, University of Warwick Stephen Benard, Cornell University Michael Billig, Loughborough...
I would like to thank Sarah Caro, formerly Senior Commissioning Editor in Social Sciences at Cambridge University Press, for her tireless and cheerful commitment to this Dictionary, and her enthusiasm for the project of sociology as a whole. Her quiet determination to get the job done provided me with an enduring role model. More recently, John Has...
At one level, sociology is easy to define. It is the study of social institutions – the family, religion, sport, community, and so on. We can study institutions at the micro-level by looking at interactions between family members, for exam-ple, or we can examine macro-relations such as the family and kinship system of a society as a whole. Below th...
Sociology is a critical discipline, and its concepts are typically contested. There is no consensus over the meaning of globalization, risk, information, culture, and society. The aim of this Dictionary has therefore been discursive. Its entries are designed to illustrate and debate concepts, showing their diverse origins and contested meanings. So...
Feb 13, 2024 · Social stratification is the organization of society into hierarchical layers, or strata, based on various factors like wealth, occupation, education level, race, or gender. For example, economic stratification is based on an individual’s wealth and income.
Apr 15, 2022 · Reflexivity generally refers to the examination of one’s own beliefs, judgments and practices during the research process and how these may have influenced the research. If positionality refers to what we know and believe then reflexivity is about what we do with this knowledge.
Jan 2, 2024 · In sociology, the concept of status plays a fundamental role in understanding social structures, interactions, and individual positions within society. Status shapes our social identity and affects how others perceive us in various social contexts.
Jul 27, 2016 · Banton 1996 defines a role as “the expected behaviour associated with a social position” (p. 749, cited under General Overviews). A social position (also referred to as a “social status”) is defined by Merton 1957 as “a position in a social system involving designated rights and obligations” (p. 110, cited under Additional General ...
