Social Stratification and Inequality
An in-depth examination of how societies organize hierarchies of power, wealth, and prestige — exploring Marxist, Weberian, and contemporary frameworks for understanding class, race, and gender intersections.
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See all 14,832 →Symbolic Interactionism
How individuals construct meaning through social interaction, using symbols, language, and shared understandings in everyday life.
Anomie and Social Disorganization
Durkheim's concept of normlessness and its impact on social cohesion, crime rates, and individual alienation in modern societies.
Ethnomethodology
Garfinkel's approach to studying the methods people use to make sense of their social world and produce orderly interactions.
Looking-Glass Self Theory
Cooley's theory of identity formation through perceived judgments of others — how we become who we are through social reflection.
Weber's Bureaucracy Theory
Max Weber's analysis of rational-legal authority, ideal bureaucracy, and the iron cage of rationality in modern organizations.
Social Capital Theory
Bourdieu, Coleman, and Putnam on the resources embedded in social networks — trust, norms, and civic engagement.
Labeling Theory & Deviance
How society's reaction to behavior creates deviance — the self-fulfilling prophecy of social control and stigmatization.
Speech Act Theory in Sociology
Austin and Searle's influence on sociological understanding of language as action — performative utterances and social reality.
World-Systems Theory
Wallerstein's analysis of global capitalism as a system of core, semi-periphery, and periphery nations with unequal power relations.
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Castells' theory of how information technology reshapes social structures, power, and identity in the network society.
Critical Race Theory
An interdisciplinary framework examining how race and racism are embedded in legal systems, social structures, and cultural narratives.
Feminist Standpoint Theory
How marginalized social positions can produce epistemologically privileged knowledge about power relations and social structures.
Urban Sociology and Spatial Theory
Chicago School, Lefebvre's production of space, and contemporary analyses of gentrification, segregation, and urban inequality.
Structuration Theory (Giddens)
The duality of structure — how human agency and social structures mutually constitute each other in ongoing social practices.