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  1. Download. The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology.pdf. The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology.pdf.

    • 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...

  2. Oct 18, 2024 · A consistent best-seller, this wide-ranging and authoritative dictionary covers terminology, concepts, and thinkers in the field of sociology, as well as from the related fields of psychology, economics, anthropology, philosophy, and political science.

  3. 2 days ago · With terms taken from sociology and the related fields of psychology, economics, anthropology, philosophy, and political science, it provides widespread coverage of all aspects of sociology, from adaptation to zero tolerance.

  4. What does ‘recognition’ mean? What critical approaches can we use to explore it? Recognition theory comes in numerous yet related forms – existential, Marxist, critical theoretical, feminist, poststructural, postcolonial, agonistic and psychoanalytic, to name a few – containing threads of the personal, cultural, social and political.

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  6. The Sage Dictionary of Sociology Steve Bruce and Steven Yearley SAGE Publications London Thousand Oaks New Delhi 00-Bruce-3321-Prelims.qxd 11/18/2005 3:20 PM Page iii