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Encyclopedia of sociology

Presents nearly four hundred entries in which various scholars explore concepts and themes in sociology, arranged alphabetically over five volumes from adolescence to world religions; and includes a comprehensive index.

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Other Authors: Borgatta, Edgar F., 1924-2016, Montgomery, Rhonda J. V.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Macmillan Reference USA, [2000]
Edition:2nd ed.
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5 volumes (xxxix, 3481 pages) : illustrations ; 29 cm.
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Contents:
  • v. 1. A-Drug
  • v. 2. Ecol-Ital
  • v. 3. Japa-Publ
  • v. 4. Qual-Socio
  • v. 5. Socio-Z Index.
  • v. 1.
  • Adolescence / Michael J. Shanahan
  • Adult Education / John Houghton
  • Adulthood / Jeylan T. Mortimer, Pamela Aronson
  • Affect Control Theory and Impression Formation / David R. Heise
  • Affirmative Action / Nathan Glazer
  • African-American Studies / Joe R. Feagin
  • African Studies / Walter R. Allen, Shani O'Neal
  • Aggression / Craig A. Anderson
  • Aging And The Life Course / Linda K. George
  • Agricultural Innovation / David Gartrell, John Gartrell
  • Alcohol / Ronald L. Akers, Thomas R. Heffington
  • Alienation / Clarence Y.H. Lo
  • Alternative Lifestyles / Karen Seccombe
  • Altruism / Judith Howard, Jane Allyn Piliavin
  • American Families / Laurie Russell Hatch
  • American Indian Studies / C. Matthew Snipp
  • American Society / Robin Williams, Jr.
  • American Sociological Association And Other Sociological Associations / Carla B. Howery
  • Analysis Of Variance And Covariance / Richard A. Bulcroft
  • Anomie / Robert Crutchfield, Kristin A. Bates
  • Applied Sociology / David W. Britt
  • Art And Society / Gladys Lang
  • Asian American Studies / William T. Liu, Elena S.H. Yu
  • Attitudes / John D. Delamater
  • Attribution Theory / Judith Howard, Danielle Kane
  • Bankruptcy And Credit / Teresa A. Sullivan
  • Behaviorism / W. David Pierce
  • Birth And Death Rates / Deborah A. Sullivan
  • British Sociology / Vaneeta D'andrea, Peter Robbins
  • Bureaucracy / David G. Nickinovich
  • Capitalism / Patrick H. Mooney
  • Case Studies / Gale E. Miller, Richard S. Jones
  • Caste And Inherited Status / Rita Jalali
  • Causal Inference Models / Hubert M. Blalock, Jr.
  • Censorship And The Regulation Of Expression / Jeffrey Strange, Melanie Green, Timothy Brock
  • Census / Karl E. Taeuber
  • Childhood Sexual Abuse / Heather Cecil
  • China Studies / Martin K. Whyte
  • Cities / Maurice D. Van Arsdol, Jr.
  • Civil Liberties / Howard P. Greenwald
  • Class And Race / Edna Bonacich
  • Clinical Sociology / Jan Fritz
  • Coalitions / Theodore Caplow
  • Cognitive Consistency Theories / Todd D. Nelson
  • Cohort Perspectives / Matilda White Riley
  • Collective Behavior / Ralph H. Turner
  • Communitarianism / Amitai Etzioni
  • Community / Gunnar Almgren
  • Comparable Worth / Nancy E. Durbin, Barbara Melber
  • Comparative Health-Care Systems / Mary Zimmerman
  • Comparative-Historical Sociology / Larry Griffin
  • Complex Organizations / Howard E. Aldrich, Peter V. Marsden
  • Compliance And Conformity / Cecilia L. Ridgeway
  • Computer Applications In Sociology / Ronald E. Anderson
  • Conflict Theory / Randall Collins
  • Content Analysis / Philip J. Stone
  • Convergence Theories / Richard M. Coughlin
  • Conversation Analysis / Jack Whalen, Geoff Raymond
  • Corporate Organizations / Cora B. Marrett
  • Correlation And Regression Analysis / Herbert L. Costner
  • Countercultures / Patricia A. Adler, Peter Adler
  • Courtship / Mary Riege Laner
  • Court Systems And Law / Edward Gross
  • Crime, Theories Of / Don C. Gibbons
  • Crime Rates / Robert M. O'Brien
  • Criminal And Delinquent Subcultures / James F. Short
  • Criminalization Of Deviance / Jackson Toby
  • Criminal Sanctions / Peter Cordella
  • Criminology / Robert Crutchfield
  • Critical Theory / Dwight B. Billings, Patricia Jennings
  • Cross Cultural Analysis / William A. Corsaro, Arthur Alderson
  • Crowds And Riots / David Snow, Ronnelle Paulsen
  • Culture / Samuel L. Gilmore
  • Data Banks And Depositories / Guido Martinotti, Sonia Stefanizzi
  • Death And Dying / John W. Riley, Jr.
  • Decision-Making Theory And Research / Evan Pritchard
  • Democracy / Andrew L. Creighton
  • Demographic Methods / Neil G. Bennett
  • Demographic Transition / Avery M. Guest, Gunnar Almgren
  • Demography / Halliman H. Winsborough
  • Dependency Theory / Jon Hendricks
  • Depression / Regan A.R. Gurung
  • Descriptive Statistics / Daphne Kuo
  • Deviance Theories / George S. Bridges, Scott A. Desmond
  • Diffusion Theories / Ronald W. Perry
  • Disaster Research / Enrico L. Quarantelli
  • Discrimination / Thomas F. Pettigrew, Marylee C. Taylor
  • Division Of Labor / Paul Morgan Baker
  • Divorce / Steven L. Nock, Alison Burke Albers
  • Drug Abuse / Charles Winick, Leonard Saxe.
  • v. 2.
  • Economic Determinism / William Difazio
  • Economic Institutions / Fred Block
  • Economic Sociology / Richard Swedberg
  • Educational Organization / Kevin Dougherty, Floyd Hammack
  • Education And Development / Yih-Jin Young
  • Education And Mobility / John Katsillis, J. Michael Armer
  • Emotions / Theodore D. Kemper
  • Environmental Equity / Glynis Daniels
  • Environmental Sociology / Riley E. Dunlap, Eugene A. Rosa
  • Epidemiology / Charles E. Holzer, III
  • Epistemology / Costantino Cipolla, Guido Giarelli
  • Equality Of Opportunity / James M. Mcpartland, Jomills Henry Braddock, II
  • Ethics In Social Research / Howard P. Greenwald
  • Ethnicity / Richard D. Alba
  • Ethnography / Carol A.B. Warren
  • Ethnomethodology / John Heritage
  • Evaluation Research / Karl Kosloski
  • Event History Analysis / Paul D. Allison
  • Evolution: Biological, Social, Cultural / Maurice N. Richter, Jr.
  • Expectation States Theory / Martha Foschi
  • Experiments / Gerald Marwell
  • Extreme Influence: Thought Reform, High Control Groups, Interrogation, And Recovered Memory Psychotherapy / Richard Ofshe
  • Factor Analysis / Duane F. Alwin
  • Family And Household Structure / Gary R. Lee, Padma Srinivasan
  • Family And Population Policy In Less Developed Countries / Julie Brines
  • Family And Religion / Jeffrey G. Pankhurst, Susan K. Houseknecht
  • Family Law / Lisa J. McIntyre
  • Family Planning / Jacqueline Darroch, Jennifer Frost
  • Family Policy In Western Societies / Irving Tallman, Ginna M. Babcock
  • Family Size / Lauri Steel
  • Family Violence / Murray A. Straus
  • Femininity/Masculinity / Peter J. Burke, Jan E. Stets
  • Feminist Theory / Gaye Tuchman
  • Fertility Determinants / Susan Cotts Watkins
  • Field Theory / Richard B. Kettner-Polley
  • Filial Responsibility / Rhonda J.V. Montgomery
  • French School Of Sociology, The / Bernard Valade
  • Functionalism And Structuralism / Alexandra Maryanski, Jonathan H. Turner
  • Futures Studies As Human And Social Activity / Eleonora Barbieri Masini
  • Game Theory And Strategic Interaction / H. Andrew Michener
  • Gender / Judith Lorber
  • Genocide / David Smith
  • German Sociology / Erwin K. Scheuch
  • Globalization And Global Systems Analysis / Sean O Riain, Peter B. Evans
  • Government Regulation / Robin Stryker
  • Group Conflict Resolution / Lynne Woehrle
  • Group Size / David R. Schmitt
  • Health And Illness Behavior / David Mechanic, Donna McAlpine
  • Health And The Life Course / Donald E. Stull
  • Health Care Utilization And Expenditures / Charlene Harrington, David N. Pellow
  • Health Policy Analysis / Carroll L. Estes, Christopher Wellin
  • Health Promotion And Health Status / Rosalie F. Young
  • Hierarchical Linear Models / A. George Alder
  • Higher Education / Steven G. Brint
  • Hispanic Americans / Marta Tienda
  • Historical Sociology / Stephen A. Kent
  • Homelessness / Barrett A. Lee
  • Human Ecology And Environmental Analysis / Lakshmi Bharadwaj
  • Humanism / Joseph Scimecca
  • Human Nature / Alan Wolfe
  • Human Rights/Children's Rights / Edgar F. Borgatta
  • Identity Theory / Sheldon Stryker
  • Illegitimacy / Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr.
  • Imperialism, Colonialism, And Decolonization / David Strang
  • Incest / Brenda J. Vander Mey
  • Income Distribution In The United States / Beth B. Hess
  • Indian Sociology / Vimal P. Shah
  • Indigenous Peoples / Joane Nagel, Thomas D. Hall
  • Individualism / Lawrence E. Hazelrigg
  • Industrialization In Less Developed Countries / R. Alan Hedley
  • Industrial Sociology / Ivar Berg
  • Infant And Child Mortality / Georgina Rojas-Garcia, Samuel Echevarria
  • Informal Economy, The / Ann R. Tickamyer, Stephanie Bohon
  • Information Society / Don A. Dillman
  • Inheritance / Marvin B. Sussman
  • Intellectuals / Seymour Martin Lipset
  • Intelligence / Linda S. Gottfredson
  • Intergenerational Relations / Karl Pillemer, J. Jill Suitor, Shirley A. Keeton
  • Intergenerational Resource Transfers / Donald E. Stull, Barbara Hirshorn
  • Intergroup And Interorganizational Relations / Oscar Grusky, Jeff Erger
  • Intermarriage / Grace J. Yoo, Robert E. Staples
  • Internal Migration / Charles F. Longino, Jr.
  • International Associations In Sociology / David Sciulli
  • International Law / Mary Ellen O'Connell
  • International Migration / David M. Heer
  • Internet / Christopher W. Gunn, Diana Odom Gunn
  • Interpersonal Attraction / Ardyth Stimson
  • Interpersonal Conflict Resolution / Anupama Joshi
  • Interpersonal Power / Morris Zelditch, Jr.
  • Italian Sociology / Alberto Gasparini.
  • v. 3.
  • Japanese Sociology / Masamichi Sasaki
  • Juvenile Delinquency, Theories Of / John Hagan
  • Juvenile Delinquency (And Juvenile Crime) / James E. Teele
  • Kinship Systems And Family Types / Bernard Farber
  • Labor Force / Valerie K. Oppenheimer
  • Labor Movements And Unions / William Form
  • Latin American Studies / Carlos H. Waisman
  • Law And Legal Systems / Joseph Sanders
  • Law And Society / William M. Evan
  • Leadership / Roya Ayman
  • Legislation Of Morality / Augustine Brannigan
  • Leisure / John R. Kelly
  • Levels Of Analysis / Robert M. O'Brien
  • Liberalism/Conservatism / Robert Boguslaw
  • Library Resources And Services For Sociology / Timothy D. Jewell
  • Life Course, The / Glen H. Elder, Jr.
  • Life Cycle / Dennis Hogan
  • Life Expectancy / Eileen M. Crimmins
  • Life Histories And Narrative / David R. Maines
  • Lifestyles And Health / Janet Hankin
  • Literature And Society / Sarah M. Corse
  • Longitudinal Research / Richard T. Campbell
  • Long-Term Care / David R. Phillips
  • Long Term Care Facilities / Eva Kahana
  • Love / Felix M. Berardo, Erica Owens
  • Macrosociology / Ann R. Tickamyer, Jieli Li
  • Major Personality Theories / Raymond J. Corsini
  • Marginal Employment / Leif Jensen, Timothy A. Slack
  • Marital Adjustment / Yoshinori Kamo
  • Marriage / Marilyn Ihinger-Tallman
  • Marriage And Divorce Rates / Paul C. Glick
  • Marxist Sociology / Raymond A. Morrow
  • Mass Media Research / Janice M. Engsberg, Gladys Lang, Kurt Lang
  • Mass Society / Richard F. Hamilton
  • Materialism / Robert J. Antonio
  • Mate Selection Theories / Kris Bulcroft
  • Mathematical Sociology / Barbara F. Meeker, Robert K. Leik
  • Measurement / Edgar F. Borgatta, Yoshinori Kamo
  • Measures Of Association / Herbert L. Costner
  • Medical-Industrial Complex / Carroll L. Estes, David N. Pellow, Charlene Harrington
  • Medical Sociology / Mary Zimmerman
  • Mental Illness And Mental Disorders / Suzanne T. Ortega, Sharon L. Larson
  • Meta-Analysis / Blair T. Johnson
  • Metatheory / Walter L. Wallace
  • Mexican Studies / Guillermo De La Pena, Bryan R. Roberts
  • Middle Eastern Studies / George Sabagh
  • Military Sociology / David J. Armor
  • Modernization Theory / J. Michael Armer, John Katsillis
  • Money / Viviana Zelizer
  • Moral Development / Thomas J. Figurski
  • Multiple Indicator Models / Kyle Kercher
  • Music / Richard A. Peterson
  • National Border Relations, Management Of / Raimondo Strassoldo
  • Nationalism / Saad Nagi
  • Negotiation Of Power / Bruno Tellia
  • Nonparametric Statistics / Subhash Sonnad
  • Observation Systems / Richard B. Kettner-Polley
  • Occupational And Career Mobility / Margaret Mooney Marini
  • Occupational Prestige / Keiko Nakao
  • Organizational Structure / Rodolfo Alvarez, Leah Robin
  • Organized Crime / Marilyn E. Walsh
  • Paradigms And Models / Bernard P. Cohen
  • Parental Roles / Constance L. Shehan
  • Participatory Research / Francesca Cancian
  • Peace / Louis Kreisberg
  • Penology / J. Forbes Farmer
  • Personal Autonomy / Kerry Marsh
  • Personal Dependency / Mario Mikulincer
  • Personality And Social Structure / Kenneth I. Spenner
  • Personality Measurement / Gerard Saucier
  • Personality Theory / Frank Dumont
  • Persuasion / Susan McWilliams
  • Phenomenology / Myron Orleans
  • Police / Carl B. Klockars
  • Polish And Eastern European Sociology / Jacek Szmatka, Kinga Wysienska
  • Political And Governmental Corruption / Richard McGrath Skinner
  • Political Correctness / Pierre L. Van Den Berghe
  • Political Crime / Austin T. Turk
  • Political Organizations / David Knoke
  • Political Party Systems / Frederick D. Weil
  • Political Sociology / J. Craig Jenkins
  • Popular Culture / Chandra Mukerji
  • Population / Thomas W. Pullum
  • Pornography / Charles Winick
  • Positive Mental Health / Janet Hankin
  • Positivism / Jonathan H. Turner
  • Postindustrial Society / Robert A. Fiala
  • Postmodernism / Augustine Brannigan
  • Poverty / Wayne J. Villemez
  • Pragmatism / David R. Maines
  • Prediction And Futures Studies / Alberto Gasparini
  • Pregnancy And Pregnancy Termination / Lynn Borgatta
  • Prejudice / Marylee C. Taylor, Thomas F. Pettigrew
  • Probability Theory / Ronald J. Schoenberg
  • Probation And Parole / Joseph G. Weis
  • Professions / Patricia A. Roos
  • Protest Movements / Leonard Gordon
  • Public Opinion / Kurt Lang
  • Public Policy Analysis / James D. Wright.
  • v. 4.
  • Qualitative Methods / Laura L. Ellingson, Carolyn Ellis
  • Qualitative Models / Alex Durig, David R. Heise
  • Quality Of Life / Kyriakos S. Markides
  • Quasi-Experimental Research Designs / Kyle Kercher, Karl Kosloski
  • Race / Susan R. Pitchford
  • Rational Choice Theory / Russell Hardin
  • Reliability / Richard A. Zeller
  • Religion, Politics, And War / John H. Simpson
  • Religious Movements / Jeffrey K. Hadden
  • Religious Organizations / James R. Wood
  • Religious Orientations / Robert Wuthnow
  • Remarriage / J. Jill Suitor, Shirley A. Keeton
  • Replication / Lowell J. Hargens
  • Research Funding In Sociology / Howard P. Greenwald
  • Retirement / Melissa A. Hardy, Kim Shuey
  • Revolutions / Robert C. Liebman
  • Role Theory / Bruce J. Biddle
  • Role Theory: Foundations, Extensions, And Applications / John H. Yost, James R. Bailey
  • Rural Sociology / Gene F. Summers, Frederick H. Buttel
  • Sample Selection Bias / Christopher Winship, Robert D. Mare
  • Sampling Procedures / Lowell J. Hargens
  • Scandinavian Sociology / Carl Gunnar Janson
  • Science / Warren Hagstrom
  • Scientific Explanation / Linda Derksen, John Gartrell
  • Secondary Data Analysis And Data Archives / Toby L. Parcel
  • Secularization / N.J. Demerath, III
  • Segregation And Desegregation / Albert W. Black, Jr.
  • Segregation Indices / Douglas S. Massey
  • Self-Concept / Richard B. Felson
  • Self-Esteem / Todd F. Heatherton, Kathleen D. Vohs
  • Sentiments / Bernardo Cattarinussi
  • Sex Differences / Monica Biernat, Kay Deaux
  • Sexual Behavior In Marriage And Close Relationships / Marion C. Willetts, Janis C. Weber
  • Sexual Behavior Patterns / Kendal Broad, John H. Scanzoni, William Marsiglio
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases / Mary Gilmore, Pepper Schwartz
  • Sexual Orientation / William Simon
  • Sexual Violence And Exploitation / Sharon Araji
  • Slavery And Involuntary Servitude / David R. James, Sara Heiliger
  • Small Groups / Robert W. Shotola
  • Social And Political Elites / Patrick Akard
  • Social Belonging / Gabriele Pollini
  • Social Capital / Tracy Karner
  • Social Change / Craig Calhoun
  • Social Comparison Processes / Karen A. Hegvedt
  • Social Control / Allen E. Liska
  • Social Dynamics / Nancy Brandon Tuma
  • Social Exchange Theory / Karen S. Cook
  • Social Forecasting / John Stimson
  • Social Indicators / Kenneth C. Land
  • Social Inequality / Angela M. O'Rand
  • Socialism And Communism / Szonja Szelenyi
  • Socialization / Viktor Gecas
  • Social Justice / Duane F. Alwin
  • Social Mobility / Thomas A. Diprete
  • Social Movements / Robert D. Benford, Timothy B. Gongaware, Danny L. Valadez
  • Social Networks / Peter V. Marsden
  • Social Organization / Herman Turk
  • Social Perception / Barry Markovsky
  • Social Philosophy / Alan Wolfe
  • Social Problems / Armand L. Mauss, Valerie Jenness
  • Social Psychology / Howard B. Kaplan
  • Social Psychology Of Status Allocation / Archibald O. Haller, Edward L. Fink, Laura Janusik
  • Social Resources Theory / Nan Lin
  • Social Security Systems / Fred C. Pampel
  • Social Stratification / David B. Grusky
  • Social Structure / Steve Rytina
  • Social Values And Norms / Margaret Mooney Marini
  • Social Work / Carol Austin, Robert McClelland
  • Societal Stratification / Archibald O. Haller
  • Society And Technological Risks / Lee Clarke
  • Sociobiology, Human / Joseph Lopreato
  • Sociocultural Anthropology / Lin Poyer
  • Sociolinguistics / Allen D. Grimshaw
  • Sociology Among The Social Sciences / Mattei Dogan
  • Sociology Of Education / Paul W. Kingston
  • Sociology Of Islam / Riaz Hassan
  • Sociology Of Knowledge / E. Doyle McCarthy
  • Sociology Of Law / James M. Inverarity
  • Sociology Of Religion / Rodney Stark.
  • v. 5.
  • Southeast Asia Studies / Charles Hirschman
  • Soviet And Post-Soviet Sociology / Igor S. Kon, Vladimir A. Yadov
  • Sport / Janet Lever, Jay Coakley
  • Standardization / Christine L. Himes
  • State, The / Jack A. Goldstone
  • Statistical Graphics / John Fox
  • Statistical Inference / Alan C. Acock
  • Statistical Methods / J. Scott Long
  • Status Attainment / Donald J. Treiman
  • Status Incongruence / Mattei Dogan
  • Stress / Nan Lin
  • Structural Lag (And Cultural Lag) / Anne Foner
  • Student Movements / Leonard Gordon
  • Suburbanization / John R. Logan
  • Suicide / Ronald W. Maris
  • Survey Research / Howard Schuman
  • Symbolic Interaction Theory / Sheldon Stryker
  • Systems Theory / Robert Boguslaw
  • Tabular Analysis / Jae-On Kim, Myoung-Jin Lee
  • Territorial Belonging / Renzo Gubert
  • Terrorism / Brian Michael Jenkins
  • Time Series Analysis / Richard Berk
  • Time Use Research / Elke Koch-Weser Ammassari
  • Tourism / Giovanni Delli Zotti
  • Transnational Corporations / R. Alan Hedley
  • Typologies / Kenneth D. Bailey
  • Urban Sociology / Lee J. Haggerty
  • Urban Underclass / John D. Kasarda
  • Utopian Analysis And Design / Robert Boguslaw
  • Validity / George W. Bohrnstedt
  • Value Theory And Research / David R. Karp
  • Voluntary Associations / William V. D'Antonio
  • Voting Behavior / Manfred Kuechler
  • War / Edgar Kiser
  • White Collar Crime / James E. Teele
  • Widowhood / Felix M. Berardo, Donna H. Berardo
  • Work And Occupations / Barbara F. Reskin
  • Work Orientation / Charles W. Mueller
  • World Religions / Larry D. Shinn.