Sociology

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15 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Sociology.

• Collective representations — Socially produced concepts, categories, symbols and beliefs that are shared by a collectivity and organize members' perception and action.
• Cultural assimilation — The process by which a minority or migrant group increasingly adopts the cultural patterns of a dominant society, potentially reducing distinct practices and identity.
• Doing Gender — The interactional process through which situated conduct is made accountable to gender-category expectations and thereby reproduces, contests, or changes gender as an apparently natural social order.
• Figurational sociology — A process-sociological tradition associated with Norbert Elias that studies changing networks of interdependent people rather than isolated individuals or static social structures.
• Global Language System — Abram de Swaan's hierarchical network model in which multilingual speakers connect peripheral, central, supercentral, and hypercentral languages, with language position shaped by communication value, state formation, migration, colonization, and globalization.
• Phenomenology (sociology) — A sociological tradition that explains social reality and institutions through the intersubjectively constituted meanings of everyday lived experience.
• Recognition (sociology) — Public or interpersonal acknowledgment that affirms a person or group’s identity, standing, contribution or socially valued status.
• Reflexive modernization — A sociological theory that advanced modern institutions increasingly confront, contest and reorganize themselves around the unintended risks and side effects produced by modernization.
• Social inequality — The structured unequal distribution of resources, rights, opportunities, status and power among socially defined persons and groups.
• Social mobility — Movement of individuals, families or groups between positions in a society’s stratification system across a lifetime or generations.
• Social rule system theory — An institutionalist framework representing norms, laws, customs, roles and organizations as interacting rule complexes that agents interpret, enact, revise and use to organize social action.
• Social system — A coherent patterned network of social relationships, roles, and statuses linking individuals, groups, and institutions.
• Split Labor Market Theory — Explain ethnic antagonism and labor-market exclusion through a structural conflict among employers, higher-priced workers, and lower-priced workers competing for the same work under institutionally produced labor-cost differentials.
• Structural inequality — Persistent unequal advantage produced by the rules, resource distributions and routines of institutions and social networks.
• Symbolic Ethnicity — A voluntary, intermittent expression of inherited ethnic identity through selected symbols and practices when everyday organization, constraint, and material participation in the ethnic group have weakened.