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Medical Sociology

Medical Sociology, 2021
The most comprehensive major academic textbook available on its topic, this classic text presents the most important research studies in the field. The author integrates engaging first-person accounts from patients, physicians, and other health care ...
W. Cockerham
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Sociology of Childhood

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies, 2020
The sociology of childhood has been used increasingly as a theoretical perspective in early childhood education since the late 1980s. In Australia, those who draw on the sociology of childhood have tended to use it in similar ways to European ...
S. Grieshaber
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Sociology of Sport

Introduction to the Sociology of Sport, 2021
Sport is popularly considered as a sphere separate from 'important' aspects of social and political dynamics. Sociological and anthropological studies have proven the opposite: both active and passive involvements in competitive sports take part in ...
Tamir Sorek
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Visual Sociology

The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion, 2020
An image of a small farmer’s dwelling in Chuña in the northwest of Córdoba province (North West Argentina). An everyday scene unfolds: the outside corner of a house, in the foreground pigs are resting, a peacock shows its plumage, an old carob tree casts
Dennis Zuev, Gary Bratchford
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Visual sociology: Expanding sociological vision

The American Sociologist, 1988
This article is an overview of the contributions of photography to sociology and a discussion of potential uses of photography in sociological research. Visual sociology, after contributing to several studies in the early decades of American sociology, disappeared to reemerge during the 1960s.
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Max Weber and the Idea of Economic Sociology

, 2018
This volume shows how Max Weber (1864-1920) laid a solid theoretical foundation for economic sociology and developed a series of new and evocative concepts.
R. Swedberg
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Intuitive sociology

2021
How do humans intuitively understand the structure of their society? How should psychologists study people's commonsense understanding of societal structure? The present chapter seeks to address both of these questions by describing the domain of "intuitive sociology." Drawing primarily from empirical research focused on how young children represent ...
Kristin, Shutts, Charles W, Kalish
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The Sociology of Gaslighting

American Sociological Review, 2019
Gaslighting—a type of psychological abuse aimed at making victims seem or feel “crazy,” creating a “surreal” interpersonal environment—has captured public attention. Despite the popularity of the term, sociologists have ignored gaslighting, leaving it to
Paige L. Sweet
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The Sociology of Housework

, 2018
In this ground-breaking book, the author undertook one of the first serious sociological studies to examine women's work in the home. She interviewed 40 urban housewives and analysed their perceptions of housework, their feelings of monotony and ...
A. Oakley
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Book Review: Environmental Sociology: From Analysis to Action

Teaching sociology, 2020
Environmental sociology is typically defined as the sociological study of societal-environmental interactions, although this definition immediately presents the perhaps insolvable problem of separating human cultures from the rest of the environment ...
Christopher Gibson
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