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Spanish women sociologists (1 C, 8 P) C. Spanish criminologists (1 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Spanish sociologists" The following 41 pages are in this category, out ...
Wider societal terms that do not have a specific sociological nature about them should be added to social concepts in keeping with the WikiProject Sociology scope for the subject. Contents Top
Manuel Castells Oliván (Catalan: [kəsˈteʎs]; born 9 February 1942) is a Spanish sociologist. He is well known for his authorship of a trilogy of works, entitled The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. He is a scholar of the information society, communication and globalization.
According to Piotr Sztompka, forms of relation and interaction in sociology and anthropology may be described as follows: first and most basic are animal-like behaviors, i.e. various physical movements of the body. Then there are actions—movements with a meaning and purpose.
Juan José Linz Storch de Gracia (24 December 1926 – 1 October 2013) was a German-born Spanish sociologist and political scientist specializing in comparative politics. From 1961 he was Sterling Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Political Science at Yale University and later also an honorary member of the Scientific Council at the Juan ...
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the discipline of sociology: . Sociology – the study of society [1] using various methods of empirical investigation [2] and critical analysis [3] to understand human social activity, from the micro level of individual agency and interaction to the macro level of systems and social structure.
Manuel Castells (born 1942), Spanish sociologist and urban planner; Cornelius Castoriadis (1922–1997), Greek philosopher and political theorist; Santiago Castro-Gómez, Colombian philosopher and sociologist; Michel de Certeau, French cultural sociologist; Karen A. Cerulo, American sociologist; Francis Stuart Chapin (1888–1974), American ...
Casta (Spanish:) is a term which means "lineage" in Spanish and Portuguese and has historically been used as a racial and social identifier. In the context of the Spanish Empire in the Americas , the term also refers to a now-discredited 20th-century theoretical framework which postulated that colonial society operated under a hierarchical race ...