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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.
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The various branches, disciplines or sub-fields of sociology. Browse a Random page in this category . The main article for this category is list of academic fields § Sociology .
Economic sociology is the study of the social cause and effect of various economic phenomena. The field can be broadly divided into a classical period and a ...
Social theories are analytical frameworks, or paradigms, that are used to study and interpret social phenomena. [1] A tool used by social scientists, social theories relate to historical debates over the validity and reliability of different methodologies (e.g. positivism and antipositivism), the primacy of either structure or agency, as well as the relationship between contingency and necessity.
Amartya Sen, Indian economist influential in the sociology of development; Richard Sennett (born 1943), American sociologist and public figure; Perla Serfaty (born 1944), Moroccan-born French and Canadian academic, sociologist, psychosociologist, writer; William H. Sewell, American sociologist; Steven Shapin, American sociologist
Sociologists' approach to culture can be divided into "sociology of culture" and "cultural sociology"—terms which are similar, though not entirely interchangeable. Sociology of culture is an older term, and considers some topics and objects as more or less "cultural" than others.