This course is divided in four parts. In the first part, we will discuss various definitions of "sociological theory" and reflect on approaches to studying theories, including the sociology of ...

Teaching social theory is just plain fun. For me, it’s an opportunity to see our world in a multidimensional way. Who needs a comic book multiverse when you can look at social phenomena through ...

The Sociology (B.S.) promotes critical thinking, data literacy, an appreciation and understanding of diversity, a complex understanding of human behavior, and an awareness of how big ideas (social ...

Daedalus, Vol. 106, No. 4, Discoveries and Interpretations: Studies in Contemporary Scholarship, Volume II (Fall, 1977), pp. 59-78 (20 pages) ...

Sociology is the systematic study of the development, interaction, and behavior of organized human groups. Sociological concepts, theory, and methods and provide powerful insights into the social ...

In our open, challenging, and yet supportive atmosphere, students rapidly learn the research methods, theories and perspective that form the nucleus of sociological practice. This makes graduate study ...

Lemert spent much of his career at UCLA and the University of California at Davis, where he was a pioneer in the sociology of crime and deviance. He produced groundbreaking work on labeling theory, ...

The Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice offers a master of arts ... generation of sociologists and criminologists by emphasizing systematic training in theory and research methodology as well ...

Thank you for considering the PhD program in Sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder! Our program offers extensive training in the foundational theories and methods of the discipline and ...

This course reviews some of the most important developments in contemporary sociological theory. It examines work in such areas as relational sociology; rational-choice theory and ethnomethodology; ...