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Consumption (sociology) — Sociology … Wikipedia
consumption sectors — consumption sectors, consumption cleavages Social divisions created by the way in which material goods and services especially major items such as housing, health, and education are consumed in advanced capitalist societies. For the most part… … Dictionary of sociology
consumption cleavages — consumption sectors, consumption cleavages Social divisions created by the way in which material goods and services especially major items such as housing, health, and education are consumed in advanced capitalist societies. For the most part… … Dictionary of sociology
consumption, sociology of — An as yet ill defined and extremely diverse field of sociology that developed rapidly during the 1980s. Its substantive focus is the material culture (especially the mass culture) of advanced capitalist societies. The essays collected together in … Dictionary of sociology
Sociology — • The claims of sociology to a place in the hierarchy of sciences are subjected to varied controversy. It has been held that there is no distinct problem for a science of sociology, no feature of human society not already provided for in the… … Catholic encyclopedia
sociology — sociologist, n. /soh see ol euh jee, soh shee /, n. the science or study of the origin, development, organization, and functioning of human society; the science of the fundamental laws of social relations, institutions, etc. [1835 45; < F… … Universalium
sociology — It has been argued that the very origins of the word ‘sociology’, from the latin socius (companion) and the Greek ology (study of), indicate its nature as a hybrid discipline that can never aspire to the status of a social science or a coherent… … Dictionary of sociology
urban sociology — Sociological concern with urbanization began with sociology itself, for it was the rapidly growing nineteenth century industrial cities that first supported those social relationships and structures which inspired the new discipline. Most early… … Dictionary of sociology
Environmental sociology — is typically defined as the sociological study of societal environmental interactions, although this definition immediately presents the perhaps insolvable problem of separating human cultures from the rest of the environment. Although the focus… … Wikipedia
Subfields of sociology — This is a list of sociology subfields. Subfields *Applied sociology/clinical sociology (also see sociological practice) *Architecture, Sociology of *Art, Sociology of *Body, Sociology of *Business, Sociology of *Childhood, Sociology of… … Wikipedia
