Glossary of Sociological Terms
Agency
Alienation
Altruism
Anomie
Apartheid
Archaeology of knowledge
Authoritarianism
Authority
Background expectancies
Base/infrastructure
Biomedic model
Bricolage
Bureaucracy
Capital-intensive
agriculture
Capital-intensive manufacturing
Capitalism
Caste system
Citizenship
Civil religion
Class
Class consciousness
Class reproduction
Class structure
Cold War
Collective action
Commodity chains
Commodity fetishism
Communication
Communities
Conflict
Conflict perspective
Conformity
Conscience collective
Consensus
Counter culture
Creolization
Crime
Cultural capital
Cultural deprivation
Cultural imperialism
Cultural relativism
Cultural reproduction
Culture
Darwinism
Debt peonage
Deconstruct
Definition of the situation
Democracy
Dependency theory
Dependent variable
Deskilling
Devaluation
Developmental state
Deviance
Deviance amplification
Diaspora
Discourse
Discrimination
Division of Labour
Dramaturgical perspective
Dystopia
Economic determinism
Economies of scale
The Economy
Education
Embourgeoisement thesis
Encounter
the Enlightenment
Epistemology
Ethnicity
Ethnocentric
Ethnocentrism
Ethnography
Ethnomethodology
Evolutionism
Exclusivist
Existentialism
Export-processing zone
False consciousness
Family
Fascism
Feudalism
Fordism
Formal Relations
Functionalism
Futurologists
Gender
Gendered division of labour
Gendering
Genealogy of power/knowledge
Generalised other
Gentrification
Globalization
Glocalization
Government
The Great Depression
the Great Transformation
Gross national product
Habitus
Hegemony
Heterophobia
Hybridity
Hypothesis
'I' and the 'me'
Ideal type
Identity
Identity politics
Ideology
'Imagined Community'
Imperialism
Inclusivist
Independent variable
Industrialization
Industrialization of war
Industrial societies
Informal relations
Informal sector
Information technology
Institutional racism
Intergenerational mobility
Interpretive
Labelling theory
Labour power
Late modernity
Life-course
Life-cycle
Life-world
Longitudinal analysis
Looking-glass self
McDonaldization
Macro-level
Marriage
Mass media
Means of production
Mechanical solidarity
Medical gaze
Medicalisation
Meta-narratives
Mercantilism
Meritocracy
Micro-level
Mode of production
Modernity
Mortification of the self
Multi-culturalism
Nation-state
Nature
Neo-liberalism
New international division of labour
Non-tariff trade barriers
Normlessness
Norms
Nuclear family
Objectivity
Ontological security
Organic solidarity
Organization
Paradigm
Participant observation
Patriarchal
Patriarchy
Personal is the political
Phenomenology
Political economy
Politics
Polyarchy
Popular culture
Post-Fordism
Post-socialist states
Post-structuralism
Postmodernism
Postmodernity
Positivism
Postindustrial society
Power
Pragmatism
Prejudice
Privatism
Professionalism
Proletariat
Proto-globalization
Public sphere
Purchasing power parity
Race
Racism
Rationalisation process
Rationality
Realist perspective
Recursiveness of social knowledge
Reductionism
Reflexive
Reflexivity
Reify
Relations of production
Relative autonomy
Relative deprivation
Relativism
Religion
the Renaissance
Research methods
Reserve army of labour
Revolution
Risk
Ritual
Sacred and the profane
Sampling frame
Science
Secondary data
Secularization
Self-consciousness
Semiotics
Sex
Sexual script
Significant other
Situational identity
Social action
Social change
Social closure
Social control
Social Darwinism
Social groups
Social interaction
Socialization
Social mobility
Social movement
Social position
Social reproduction
Social role
Social stratification
Social structure
Society
Sociology
Sociology of the body
Sovereignty
The State
Status
Status groups
Stigmatise
Structuration theory
Structures
Subculture
Superstructure
Surplus value
Symbolic interactionism
Symbolic systems
Symbolic world
Taylorization
Theoretical approach
Theory
Third World
Total institutions
Transsexuals
Trust
The Unconscious
Underdevelopment
Unemployment
Unintended consequences
Urbanism