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  2. Asylums (book) - Wikipedia

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    Based on his participant observation field work (he was employed as a physical therapist's assistant under a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health at a mental institution in Washington, D.C.), Goffman details his theory of the "total institution" (principally in the example he gives, as the title of the book indicates, mental institutions) and the process by which it takes efforts ...

  3. Sociology of immigration - Wikipedia

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    The sociology of immigration involves the sociological analysis of immigration, particularly with respect to race and ethnicity, social structure, and political policy. Important concepts include assimilation , enculturation , marginalization , multiculturalism , postcolonialism , transnationalism and social cohesion .

  4. Quizlet - Wikipedia

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    Quizlet was founded in October 2005 by Andrew Sutherland, who at the time was a 15-year old student, [2] and released to the public in January 2007. [3] Quizlet's primary products include digital flash cards , matching games , practice electronic assessments , and live quizzes.

  5. Asylum (novel series) - Wikipedia

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    Asylum is a New York Times bestselling young adult horror novel series by Madeleine Roux. [1] The series is composed of four novels, Asylum , Sanctum , Catacomb , and Escape from Asylum and three novellas: The Scarlets , The Bone Artists , and The Warden .

  6. Public sociology - Wikipedia

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    The term "public sociology" was first introduced by Herbert Gans in his 1988 ASA presidential address, "Sociology in America: The Discipline and the Public". [5] For Gans, primary examples of public sociologists included David Riesman, author of The Lonely Crowd (one of the best-selling books of sociology ever to be written), and Robert Bellah, the lead author of another best-selling work ...

  7. Sociology of culture - Wikipedia

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    The sociology of culture is an older concept, and considers some topics and objects as more or less "cultural" than others. By way of contrast, Jeffrey C. Alexander introduced the term cultural sociology, an approach that sees all, or most, social phenomena as inherently cultural at some level. [3]

  8. Middle-range theory (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    Examples of middle-range theories are theories of reference groups, social mobility, normalization processes, role conflict and the formation of social norms. [3] The middle-range approach has played a role in turning sociology into an increasingly empirically oriented discipline. [7] This was also important in post-war thought.

  9. Social control - Wikipedia

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    The term "social control" was first introduced to sociology by Albion Woodbury Small and George Edgar Vincent in 1894. However, at the time, sociologists only showed sporadic interest in the subject. [10] While the concept of social control has been around since the formation of organized sociology, the meaning has been altered over time.