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Writing after various developments in biology, however, Spencer rejected what he regarded as the ideological aspects of Comte's positivism, attempting to reformulate social science in terms of his principle of evolution, which he applied to the biological, psychological and sociological aspects of the universe.
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
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.
Sociology of religion is the study of the beliefs, practices and organizational forms of religion using the tools and methods of the discipline of sociology.This objective investigation may include the use both of quantitative methods (surveys, polls, demographic and census analysis) and of qualitative approaches (such as participant observation, interviewing, and analysis of archival ...
David Lyon FRSC FAcSS (born 1948) is a sociologist who directed the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.He previously held a Queen’s Research Chair position and appointments in the Department of Sociology and the Faculty of Law at Queen's University.
A Secular Age has been reviewed in newspapers such as The New York Times [8] and The Guardian, [9] magazines such as The New Republic [7] and The American Prospect, [10] and professional journals such as Intellectual History Review, [11] Political Theory, [12] Implicit Religion, [13] and European Journal of Sociology. [14]
Sociology of Religion is a 1920 book by Max Weber, a German economist and sociologist. The original edition was in German. Max Weber studied the effects of religious action and inaction. He categorized different religions in order to fully understand religion's subjective meaning to the individual .
Discourse is a major topic in social theory, with work spanning fields such as sociology, anthropology, continental philosophy, and discourse analysis. Following work by Michel Foucault , these fields view discourse as a system of thought, knowledge, or communication that constructs our world experience.