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[The sociological imagination is] the quality of mind essential to grasp the interplay of man and society, of biography and history, of self and world.
C. Wright Mills (1959)
What is Sociology?
According to the American Sociological Association (ASA), Sociology is: the study of society a social science involving the study of the social lives of people, groups, and societies the study of our behavior as social beings, covering everything from the analysis of short contacts between anonymous individuals on the street to the study of global social processes the scientific study of social aggregations, the entities through which humans move throughout their lives' an overarching unification of all studies of humankind, including history, psychology, and economics
source: American Sociological Association (n.d.). What is Sociology? Retrieved May 9, 2011, from http://www.asanet.org/about/sociology.cfm
According to the International Sociological Association (ISA), the following areas of social life are established research themes in sociology for practioners around the world (Research Committees). Aging Agriculture and Food Alienation Theory and Research Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution Arts Biography and Society Body in the Social Sciences Childhood Clinical Sociology Communication, Knowledge and Culture Community Research Comparative Sociology Conceptual and Terminological Analysis Deviance and Social Control Disasters Economy and Society Education Environment and Society Family Research Futures Research Health History of Sociology Housing and Built Environment Labor Movements Language and Society Law Leisure Logic and Methodology Mental Health and Illness Migration Organization
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Participation, Organizational Democracy and SelfManagement Political Sociology Population Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy Professional Groups Racism, Nationalism and Ethnic Relations Rational Choice Regional and Urban Development Religion Science and Technology Social Classes and Social Movements
Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change Social Psychology Social Indicators Social Transformations and Sociology of Development Sociocybernetics Sociotechnics, Sociological Practice Sport Stratification Theory Tourism, International Women in Society Work Youth
source: International Sociological Association (n.d.). Research Committees. Retrieved May 9, 2011, from http://www.isa-sociology.org/rc.htm
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