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SOC 101 - Downtown - Introduction to Sociology (Landers): Main topics

Instructions for finding peer reviewed articles on your topic, all of which have Methods sections, and citing them in APA style

Topics

  • anomie
  • alienation
  • weltanschauung
  • Social structure
  • Norms
  • Status
  • Culture
  • Socialization
  • Industrialization
  • Modernity (Please use dates in your answers.)
  • Rationalization
  • Racialization
  • Social groups
  • Social control
  • Social stratification
  • Class
  • Power

 

Topics

  • Gender (How is this different from biological sex at birth?)
  • Race (How is this different from ethnicity?)
  • Ethnicity (How is this different from race?)
  • Minority (Is this about power or numbers?)
  • Post-colonialism (Please use dates in your answer.)
  • Corporation
  • Authority
  • Special interest group
  • Symbolic Interaction
  • Kinship
  • Religion
  • Fundamentalism (Is this a type of religion, or is it a philosophical school of
  • thought in Sociology?)
  • Structural-functionalismUrbanization
  • Ecologically sustainable culture
  • Collective behavior
  • Globalization
  • Scientific method
  • Academic sociology
  • Applied Sociology
  • Empirical questions
  • Theoretical questions
  • Worldview

Topics

  • Sociological imagination
  • Learned Helplessness
  • Conflict Theory
  • professionalism
  • macroeconomics
  • microeconomics
  • meso-level
  • ethnocentrism
  • Marx
  • Durkheim
  • Weber
  • Mead
  • Cooley