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Rodney William Stark (July 8, 1934 – July 21, 2022) [ 1] was an American sociologist of religion who was a longtime professor of sociology and of comparative religion at the University of Washington. At the time of his death he was the Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences at Baylor University, co-director of the university's ...
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (1966), by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, proposes that social groups and individual persons who interact with each other, within a system of social classes, over time create concepts (mental representations) of the actions of each other, and that people become habituated to those concepts, and thus assume ...
The Rise of Christianity (subtitled either A Sociologist Reconsiders History or How the Obscure, Marginal Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Religious Force in the Western World in a Few Centuries, depending on the edition), is a book by the sociologist Rodney Stark, which examines the rise of Christianity, from a small movement in Galilee and Judea at the time of Jesus to the majority ...
Binary opposition is the system of language and/or thought by which two theoretical opposites are strictly defined and set off against one another. [ 1] It is the contrast between two mutually exclusive terms, such as on and off, up and down, left and right. [ 2] Binary opposition is an important concept of structuralism, which sees such ...
Definitions of whiteness in the United States. The legal and social strictures that define White Americans, and distinguish them from persons who are not considered white by the government and society, have varied throughout the history of the United States. Race is defined as a social and political category within society based on hierarchy.
Mark Abrams (1906–1994), British sociologist, political scientist and pollster. Janet Abu-Lughod (1928–2013), American sociologist. Jane Addams (1860–1935), American social worker, sociologist, public philosopher and reformer. Theodor Adorno (1903–1969), German philosopher and cultural sociologist. Richard Alba, American sociologist.
Whiteness studies is the study of the structures that produce white privilege, [ 1] the examination of what whiteness is when analyzed as a race, a culture, and a source of systemic racism, [ 2] and the exploration of other social phenomena generated by the societal compositions, perceptions and group behaviors of white people. [ 3]
In critical theory, philosophy, sociology, and psychoanalysis, the gaze (French: le regard ), in the figurative sense, is an individual's (or a group's) awareness and perception of other individuals, other groups, or oneself. The concept and the social applications of the gaze have been defined and explained by existentialist and ...