This is a list of terms in sociology.

A

absolute poverty -- achieved status -- acid rain -- acute disease -- adaptation -- affirmative action -- affluent alienation -- age grades -- age structure -- ageism -- agency of socialization -- agency -- AGIL --aggregate -- agism -- agrarian societies -- agribusiness -- aids -- air pollution -- alienation -- alternative communities -- altruism -- altruistic love -- amalgamation -- Anabaptists -- anarchistic -- androgyny -- animism -- anomia -- anomie -- anomie theory -- anthropology -- apartheid -- apollonian -- applied sciences -- approach -- appropriate technology -- archaeology of knowledge -- aristocracy -- arms race -- arms trade -- arranged marriage -- asceticism -- ascribed status -- ascriptive characteristic -- assimilation -- autarky -- authentic act -- authoritarian personality -- authoritarianism -- authority -- autocratic rule -- automation -- avant-garde --

B

background expectancies -- balance of power -- belonging -- bioethics -- biomedic model -- blended family -- bourgeoisie -- bricolage -- bureaucracy -- bureaucratic collectivism -- bureaucratization --

C

capital-intensive agriculture -- capital-intensive manufacturing -- capitalism -- capitalists -- carrying capacity -- cash-crop production -- caste -- caste system -- catholic worker -- causation -- charismatic -- CBD -- chronic disease -- church -- citizen -- citizenship -- civil disorders -- civil religion -- civil rights -- civil society -- clan -- class -- class conflict -- class consciousness -- class reproduction -- class structure -- cognition -- cohabitation -- cold war -- collective action -- collective representation -- collective violence -- colonialism -- commodity -- commodity chain -- commodity fetishism -- commodity riots -- communal riot -- communication -- communism -- communities -- community -- comparable worth -- comparative sociology -- computational sociology -- conflict theory -- conflict methodology -- conflict perspective -- conformity -- conglomerates -- conscience collective -- consciousness -- consensus -- content analysis -- contingency work -- contradiction -- contradictory class locations -- core countries -- corporation -- correlation -- counter culture -- counterrevolution -- coup d'etat -- created environment -- creolization -- crime -- crisis medicine -- critical sociology -- crude birth-rate -- crude death-rate -- cult -- cultural capital -- cultural deprivation -- cultural imperialism -- cultural lag -- cultural materialism -- cultural pluralism -- cultural relativism -- cultural relativity -- cultural reproduction -- cultural superstructure -- cultural system -- cultural transmission -- cultural universal -- culture -- culture of poverty -- curative medicine -- custodial care --

D

darwinism -- debt peonage -- deconstruct -- defensive medicine -- definition of the situation -- deforestation -- deinstitutionalization -- democracy -- demographic transition -- demography -- density -- dependency theory -- dependent variable -- depletion -- desertification -- deskilling -- destratification -- deterrence theory -- devaluation -- developmental state -- deviance -- deviance amplification -- deviant subculture -- dialectical -- diaspora -- differential association -- differentiation -- diffusion -- dionysian -- discourse -- discrimination -- division of labor -- division of labour -- domestic labor -- domestic violence -- double standard -- doubling time -- dramaturgical perspective -- dual career family -- dual welfare system -- dysfunction -- dystopia --

E

ecologism -- ecology -- economic determinism -- economic interdependence -- economies of scale -- economy -- ecosystem -- education -- education system -- egalitarian -- egalitarian ethic -- egalitarian family -- elderly abuse -- elites -- embourgeoisement thesis -- emigration -- empirical studies -- encounter -- endogamy -- entrepreneur -- entropy -- environment -- environmentalism -- epistemology -- estate -- ethnic group -- ethnic minority -- ethnicity -- ethnocentric -- ethnocentrism -- ethnography -- ethnomethodology -- eutrophication -- evolution -- evolutionism -- exclusivist -- existentialism -- exogamy -- experiment -- exponential growth -- export-processing zone -- extended family --

F

false consciousness -- family -- family of orientation -- family of procreation -- fascism -- fecundity -- fee-for-service medicine -- feedback loop -- femininity -- feminism -- fertility -- fetishism -- feudalism -- first world -- flextime -- forces of production -- Fordism -- formal relations -- functional rationality -- functionalism -- functions -- fundamentalism -- futurist -- futurologist -- futurology --

G

gang -- GDP -- gemeinschaft -- Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft - gender -- gendered division of labour -- gendering -- genealogy of power/knowledge -- generalised other -- generalized other -- genetic engineering -- genocide -- gentrification -- geopolitics -- gesellschaft -- gestalt psychology -- ghetto -- globalization -- glocalization -- GNP -- government -- Great Depression -- Great Transformation -- green revolution -- greenhouse effect -- gross domestic product -- gross national product -- guerrilla movement --

H

habitus -- health maintenance organization -- hegemony -- heterophobia -- heterosexuality -- hidden curriculum -- high-trust systems -- higher circles -- higher education -- historical materialism -- historical sociology -- homophobia -- homosexuality -- housework -- hunting and gathering society -- hybridity -- hypothesis --

I

'I' and the 'me' -- iatrogenic -- ideal type -- identity -- identity politics -- ideology -- imagined community -- immigration -- imperialism -- in-group -- inclusivist -- income -- independent variable -- industrial democracy -- industrial production -- industrial societies -- industrialization -- industrialization of war -- infant mortality rate -- informal relations -- informal sector -- information technology -- infrastructural determinism -- infrastructure -- inner city -- instinct -- instinctual theory -- institution -- institutional capitalism -- institutional demand -- institutional discrimination -- institutional racism -- insurrection -- intelligence -- intelligence quotient -- intensification -- intentional community -- interaction -- interest group -- intergenerational mobility -- internal colonialism -- international division of labor -- interpersonal violence -- interpretive --

J

Japanization --

K

kinship -- knowledgeable agent --

L

labeling theory -- labour power -- laissez-faire -- late modernity -- latent function -- latent functions -- law -- legitimacy -- legitimation crisis -- lesbianism -- liberal democracy -- life expectancy -- life-course -- life-cycle -- life-span -- life-world -- lifestyle changes -- limited war -- literacy -- local knowledge -- longevity -- longitudinal analysis -- looking-glass self -- low-trust systems -- luddism -- luddite --

M

macro-level -- macrosociology -- magic -- male inexpressiveness -- malthusianism -- managed care -- managerial capitalism -- managerial class -- manifest function -- marriage -- Marxian sociology -- Marxism -- masculinity -- mass media -- master status -- materialism -- matriarchy -- matrilineal descent -- matrilocality -- mcdonaldization -- mean -- means of production -- mechanical solidarity -- mechanization -- median -- medicaid -- medical gaze -- medical model -- medicalisation -- medicare -- megalopolis -- mental disorder -- mental superstructure -- mercantilism -- meritocracy -- meta-narratives -- methodology -- micro-level -- microsociology -- middle class -- migration -- military rule -- military-industrial complex -- millenarianism -- minority group -- mixed economy -- mode -- mode of production -- mode of reproduction -- modernity -- modernization -- monogamy -- monopoly -- monotheism -- mores -- mortality rate -- mortification of the self -- multi-culturalism -- multilinear evolution -- multinational company -- multinational corporation --

N

nation-state -- nationalism -- nature -- neo-colonialism -- neo-liberalism -- neo-locality -- neolocality -- new international division of labour -- non-state actor -- non-tariff trade barrier -- norm -- normal type -- normlessness -- nuclear family --

O

objectivity -- oligarchy -- oligopoly -- ontological security -- open lineage family -- organic solidarity -- organization -- organized crime -- ozone depletion --

P

paradigm -- participant observation -- participatory democracy -- pastoral society -- patient dumping -- patriarchal -- patriarchy -- patrilineal descent -- peasant -- peer group -- periphery countries -- personal is the political -- phenomenology -- physician assistant -- plea bargaining -- pluralism -- pluralist theory -- political economy -- political party -- politics -- pollution -- polyandry -- polyarchy -- polygamy -- polygyny -- polytheism -- popular culture -- positivism -- post-Fordism -- post-socialist state -- post-structuralism -- postindustrial society -- postmodernism -- postmodernity -- power -- power elite -- powerlessness -- pragmatism -- prejudice -- prestige -- primary deviance -- primary group -- primary group structure -- primary labor market -- primary sector -- private health care -- privatism -- profane -- professionalism -- profession -- proletariat -- prostitution -- proto-globalization -- psychopath -- psychosis -- public health care -- public sphere -- purchasing power parity --

Q

qualitative method -- quantitative method --

R

race -- racism -- radical -- radical sociology -- rape -- rationalisation process -- rationality -- rationalization -- realist perspective -- rebellion -- recidivism rate -- reciprocity -- recursiveness of social knowledge -- reductionism -- reflexive -- reflexive sociology -- reflexivity -- reform movement -- reify -- relation of production -- relative autonomy -- relative deprivation -- relative poverty -- relativism -- religion -- representative democracy -- research methods -- reserve army of labour -- resocialization -- restratification -- retirement center -- revolution -- riot -- risk -- rite of passage -- ritual -- role -- role conflict -- ruling class -- ruling elite --

S

sacred -- sacred and the profane -- sampling -- sampling frame -- sanction -- Sapir-Whorf hypothesis -- scapegoating -- schizophrenia -- science -- second world -- secondary data -- secondary deviance -- secondary group -- secondary group structure -- secondary labor market -- secularization -- self -- self-consciousness -- semi-periphery countries -- semiotics -- serial monogamy -- sex -- sex role -- sex stratification -- sexism -- sexual harassment -- sexual script -- sick role -- significant other -- simulation -- situational identity -- snowballing -- social action -- social change -- social closure -- social conflict -- social control -- social darwinism -- social disorganization -- social evolution -- social fact -- social forces -- social groups -- social institutions -- social interaction -- social mobility -- social movement -- social movements -- sociological perspective -- social position -- social power -- social reproduction -- social role -- social stratification -- social structure -- social system -- social trend -- socialism -- socialization -- society -- sociobiology -- sociocultural materialism -- sociological imagination -- sociology -- sociology of the body -- solid waste -- sovereignty -- split labor market -- standing army -- star wars -- state -- state society -- stateless society -- status -- status group -- status offence -- step-family -- stereotype -- stigma -- stigmatise -- strategic defense initiative -- stratification -- strike -- structural unemployment -- structuration theory -- structure -- structures -- subculture -- suburbanization -- superstructure -- surplus value -- surveillance -- survey -- symbol -- symbolic interactionism -- symbolic system -- symbolic world --

T

taboo -- Taylorism -- Taylorization -- technology -- terrorism -- tertiary sector -- the Enlightenment -- the Renaissance -- state -- unconscious -- theoretical approach -- theory -- third world -- total institution -- total war -- totalitarianism -- totemism -- totem -- trading network -- traditional state -- transformative movement -- transitional class -- transnational company -- transsexual -- trust --

U

unconscious -- underclass -- underdevelopment -- unemployment -- unilinear evolution -- unintended consequences -- union -- upper class -- urban ecology -- urban renewal -- urbanism -- urbanization --

V

value -- variable -- verstehen -- vertical mobility -- vested interest -- victimless crime -- violence --

W

wealth -- wealthfare -- welfare -- welfare state -- white-collar crime -- -- women's liberation movement -- work -- working class -- world system theory --

X

xenophobia --

Z

zero population growth -- ZPG -- zweckrational --