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6 unusual facts about sociology


Assembly line

Sociological work has explored the social alienation and boredom that many workers feel because of the repetition of doing the same specialized task all day long.

Elisabeth Jungmann

A German Jewess, born in Lublinitz in Upper Silesia, the daughter of Adolf and Agnes Jungmann and the sister of Otto Jungmann and sociologist and historian Eva Gabriele Reichmann, she served as a nurse for the German army during World War I.

Erna Barschak

In 1915 Barschak completed the German Abitur which allowed her to go on to university, where she studied Economics, Sociology and Psychology in Berlin and Tübingen.

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of National University of Singapore

Within the Social Sciences division, the following subjects are offered: Communications and New Media, Economics, Geography, Political science, Psychology, Social work and Sociology.

University of Copenhagen Faculty of Social Sciences

The University of Copenhagen Faculty of Social Sciences is divided into five departments, where research and teaching are carried out in the fields of Economics, Political Science, International Politics, Management, Anthropology, Psychology and Sociology.

University of Kragujevac Faculty of Economics

Candidates can choose among following eight subjects: General economics, Business economics, National economics, Statistics, Accounting, Philosophy, Sociology and Mathematics.


2008–09 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team

A week later at the Notre Dame game, Troy Aikman was honored for his induction into the College Football Hall of Fame and for having recently completed his courses for a degree in sociology during half-time.

Aaron Antonovsky

For a time he held positions in Jerusalem at the Israeli Institute for Applied Social Research and in the Department of Medical Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem/Hadassah.

Alain Caillé

He is Professor of sociology at the University of Paris X Nanterre.

Antonija Šola

Born in Zagreb to Kaja and Marko Šola, both whom hailed from Tomislavgrad, she studied sociology and Croatian culture before turning to show business.

Ascriptive inequality

This idea was first introduced into Sociology by anthropologist Ralph Linton in 1936 when he described it in his work The Study of Man .

Bram Peper

After finishing the HBS, Peper studied social sciences at the University of Amsterdam until 1965 and economy and sociology at the University of Oslo (1963/1964) and got his PhD at the Nederlandse Economische Hogeschool (Currently Erasmus University) in 1972.

Caro diario

Shots of landscape, architecture, and beautiful monuments accompany his thoughts, which range from critiques of Hollywood cinema (specifically the contemporary movie Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer), to critiques of banalization of the Italian cinema, to a chance meeting with Jennifer Beals, to sociology and urbanism.

CESNUR

Eileen Barker, professor in sociology at the London School of Economics

Charles Madge

He was the son of Lieut Col. C. A. Madge and Barbara, née Hylton Foster, and the brother of the sociologist John Madge who wrote The Origins of Scientific Sociology.

Chicago Club

G. William Domhoff, professor of sociology at the University of California, ran a network analysis study on the membership of think tanks, policy-planning groups, social clubs, trade associations, and opinion-shaping groups across the country for a research project he was doing on San Francisco's Bohemian Club.

Cho-yun Hsu

He is an Emeritus Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh where he taught from 1970 until his retirement in 1998, and has served in honorary positions in several universities including Duke University, Nanjing University, and Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Christoph Beat Graber

He teaches in the fields of international trade law, communications and art law, European and global media law and the sociology of law at the University of Lucerne, lectures on audiovisual services in the MILE program of the World Trade Institute, and is a recognized expert in the field of audio-visual services.

Clown society

Clown society is a term used in anthropology and sociology for an organization of comedic entertainers (Heyoka or "clowns") who have a formalized role in a culture or society.

Dacher Keltner

Professor Keltner received his B.A. in Psychology and Sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara and his Ph.D. from Stanford University, and he completed three years of post-doctoral work with Paul Ekman at the University of California, San Francisco.

DiMaggio

Paul DiMaggio (born 1951), professor of sociology at Princeton University

Eurolinguistics

The internet platform EuroLinguistiX (ELiX) (edited by Joachim Grzega) offers a bibliography of Eurolinguistic publications as well as a wiki, a discussion forum, an academic internet journal in order to address also aspects of "linguistic and cultural history", "sociology of languages", "language politics" and "intercultural communication".

Everett Stonequist

The recipient, whose interest and grades in sociology are among the award criteria, is selected by the faculty of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work.

Global Open Water Swimming Conference

The conference offers four central themes: Training, Business, Racing and Lifestyle with each presentation geared towards providing different perspectives on these themes.

Grounded theory

This approach was written down and systematized in the 1960s by Anselm Strauss (himself a student of Herbert Blumer) and Barney Glaser (a student of Paul Lazarsfeld), while working together in studying the sociology of illness at the University of California, San Francisco.

History of the social sciences

Durkheim set up the first European department of sociology at the University of Bordeaux in 1895, publishing his Rules of the Sociological Method.

Ingar Roggen

The late Rob Kling, who had been given a personal introduction by Stein Bråten to the ongoing research on social informatics at the University of Oslo in 1986, and also had noted the introduction of web sociology in January 1996, established the American branch of social informatics at Indiana University later that year.

Interpretivism

Antipositivism, also known as interpretivism – a tradition in social science related to interactionism and the verstehen sociology of Max Weber and Georg Simmel

Jewish Historical Institute

In 2011, Paweł Śpiewak, a Professor of Sociology at Warsaw University and former politician, was nominated as the Director of the Jewish Historical Institute by Bogdan Zdrojewski, Minister of Culture and National Heritage.

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

From there, he went to teach Modern Christianity (history, sociology, philosophy, and theology) in the Department of Religion at the University of Manitoba, in Winnipeg, Canada, rising to the rank of Professor in 1997 and receiving the university's top awards for research and for outreach to the community (via his newspaper column and other media appearances).

Jon Stratton

Stratton has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Essex and has worked in Australia since 1980, arriving at Curtin in 1990 after teaching at universities in Brisbane (Griffith University, Queensland University of Technology, University of Queensland), Armidale (University of New England) and Darwin (Northern Territory University).

Jost Reinecke

He is professor of Quantitative Methods of Empirical Social Research at Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University.

Kabir Stori

He was selected to study in Germany by the then government and studied psychology with political science, sociology and philosophy from the universities of Frankfurt, Cologne and Marburg.

Kurt Maetzig

He also studied sociology, psychology and law for a year at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Lane Kenworthy

Kenworthy worked ass assistant professor of sociology at Rochester Institute of Technology 1994–1995 and held the same position at East Carolina University 1995–2000.

Laurence Iannaccone

David Lehman, Rational Choice and the Sociology of Religion, chapter 8 in Bryan S. Turner (ed.) The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion, John Wiley and Sons, 2010, ISBN 1-4051-8852-9

Louise Beaudoin

Beaudoin earned a master's degree in history from Université Laval and a master's degree in sociology at the Sorbonne.

Lowell Bergman

He graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with Honors, in Sociology and History, and was a graduate fellow in philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, where he studied under Herbert Marcuse.

Maria Isaura Pereira de Queiróz

She obtained her degree in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo (1949), Diploma of Graduate Studies in sociology, anthropology and politics from the University of São Paulo (1951) and a doctorate degree in Sociology from the École pratique des hautes études Section VI (1959).

Michael A. Hoffman

Hoffman was the director of the Archaeology Laboratory at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville from 1972 to 1979 and was an associate professor in sociology and anthropology at Western Illinois University.

Mode 1

Mode 1 (a term from the sociology of science which refers to the way knowledge is produced)

Nelofer Pazira

Nelofer holds a degree in Journalism and English Literature from Carleton University (Ottawa), and an master's degree in Anthropology/Sociology and Religion from Concordia University (Montreal).

Paris Descartes University

Headquartered in the historic École de Chirurgie in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, the university strongly focus on medical sciences (medicine, dental medicine, pharmacy, psychology), biomedical sciences (cellular and molecular biology, biochemistry, chemistry, biomedical physic), social sciences (sociology, anthropology, linguistics, demographics, science of education), mathematics, computer science and law.

Pepetela

Pepetela first went to Paris and then, in 1963, earned a scholarship to study Sociology in Algiers, where he was approached by Henrique Abranches from the MPLA to help create a Center for Angolan Studies.

Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan

The Center has become increasingly interdisciplinary over time, drawing faculty from Anthropology, Economics, Geography, Natural Resources, Political Science, Psychology, Public Health, Public Policy, Social Work, Sociology, and Statistics.

Ragin

Charles C. Ragin, an American sociologist and Professor of Sociology and Political Science at the University of Arizona

Robert J. Cottrol

Cottrol holds a chair in the George Washington University (GWU) Law School and is also a professor of history and sociology at GWU.

Roy Speckhardt

Speckhardt earned a Bachelor of Arts in sociology from Mary Washington College and a Master of Business Administration, with a concentration in information systems management, from George Mason University.

Sangeet Natak Akademi

Books on several subjects including Dance, Drama, Music, Theatre, Sociology, Folklore, Tribal Studies, Indian History and Culture, Indian Art, Religion and Epics, Mythology, Anthropology and Reference works such as Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Yearbooks, Bibliographies, Indexes and Newspaper clippings about Academy Awards and eminent artistes in the field of performing arts, can be found here.

Serge LeClerc

LeClerc graduated from the University of Waterloo with an honours degree in sociology with a minor in social work, and with a social work diploma.

Sociology of literature

John A. Hall, (1979), The Sociology of Literature, London: Longman.

Sylvie Fogiel Bijaoui

Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui (born 1951) is a Prof. of Sociology at College of Management in Israel.

Thomas Mathiesen

He graduated as M.A. in 1958 (major subject: sociology, minor subject: psychology and social anthropology) from the University of Oslo, where he did his doctorate in 1965.

University of Stavanger

The university offers doctorates in Petroleum Technology, Offshore Technology, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Special Needs Education, Literacy and Social Science (with specializations in Medicine and Health, Risk Management and Societal Safety, Management, Economics, Tourism, Sociology, Social Work and Culture & Society).

Ursula Acosta

During her summers she took courses towards her Ph.D. at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany and in 1979 earned her Ph.D. in social psychology with minors in linguistics and sociology.

William Sansom

In his classical work The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Erving Goffman used an extended paragraph of Sansom's A Contest of Ladies to develop his model of the social role and the dramaturgical approach to sociology.


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