For my sociology class, I need to interview an adult of the opposite gender (so in my case - a man) or LGBTQ+ individual about their experience (such as have you experienced discrimination). It’s only a couple of questions and it’s totally anonymous and confidential.

Anyone willing to chat with me or any pointers where else to look for a person that I could interview?

hi! i am looking for sociology book that are not too long, dense, and do not contain super convoluted language.

i am already almost finished with my sociology degree so i do understand the principles of the field and the most prominent theories and sociologists, along with some more niche knowledge of particular topics.

i have read multiple textbooks, and i am assigned textbook readings and academic papers frequently, but am looking for something more engaging and enjoyable for my free time.

things that interest me most are: feminism, socialization of children (i.e. raising children that aren’t misogynistic or racist), mental illness, the opioid epidemic, racism, the criminal justice system, violence, social deviance, and social media.

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My first answer was family friends etc. but from families with good socioeconomics and educated backgrounds criminals can arise, and just the opposite is also true: amongst criminals an ethical person can exist. So if these types of factors that have a big role in one's childhood don't really determine it then what exactly does? If there are two options, one is ethically considered good and the other one is bad. If two people pick different choices, what is the reason underneath it? Do we have free will, or are our personalities already decided even before we are born by something we have no control on? When I think about why someone did something I often end up in the conclusion "Because that's his/her personality." But I can't go deeper than that? Many question leads to personality but personality doesn't lead to anything. Or at least i just can't find anything. I'm really stuck so if you have any information or thought please feel free to share.

As per title. I'm interested in the ways that people's ability to demonstrate knowledge of a certain field interacts with their social status, eg. the way that a child in school who knows the names of every Pokemon can acquire greater status in their classroom, or a teenager who's very erudite about Heavy Metal music can acquire status with their specific in-group, or an adult man who demonstrates knowledge of football can acquire status with his fellow supporters, how politicians may be able to seem more qualified than their competitors by demonstrating knowledge of a country's history or literary classics, etc.

I'm quite familiar with academic literature about "knowledge" in the field of philosophy, but I don't know very much about sociology so feel free to be as basic as you like in your recommendations. Thank you!

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Hi! Does anyone have any recommendations for learning about the sociology of debt?

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For example, social groups are often united by shared beliefs.^(1) Members of the group gain the benefits of being in a group by accepting and promoting those beliefs,^(2) even when that itself doesn't benefit society in any obvious way, and in fact can be detrimental to society when one such group clashes with another of opposing beliefs^(.)^(3)

It's also common for things that are detrimental to society, such as discrimination,^(4) to become normalized to the point that refusal or opposition carries significant risks for the individual.^(5)

Why is that?

I'm a novice looking for academic literature that discusses this topic; references, please! Thanks.

I am a Sociology Post Graduate with no expertise in Computational Sociology or computational social science. But, I have a Graduate Degree in Electronics with basic computer language as sub major. I would like to know if there’s any online computational sociology diploma worth pursuing. Thanks in advance.

I'm having troubles finding data on suicide rates separated by men and women.

Notably I'm looking for the number of people that attempt NOT the number of attempts.

Tracking attempts is problematic with attempting to track affected people since men are more likely to succeed on initial attempts and suicidal people are likely to attempt several times.

hi i've been trying to find some research papers on how to use theory of symbolic interactionism to analyse lesbian experiences in various media (esp. literature and movies), but but i am really STRUGGLING. does anyone has any paper recommendations? a purely theoretical one or actually using SI to analyze for example a novel. i only found one paper in which author connects queer theory and SI and that's all.

I’m in sixth form final year and I have a PPE coming up but not sure what the code for the exam means. It says Sociology A2 POE (Sociology A2 Paper 1 PPE) what exactly does this mean.

I decided to focus on sociology of economics, please inform me if yoy know or follow any sociologists who work on this branch. Thank you.

How to know if my profile is good enough to get into a sociology PhD program in the US?

Undergrad from Bangladesh-3.44 Master's from NDSU - 4.00 Didn’t take GRE No journal publication, 2 conference papers Professional experience- 2 (As an Impact Analyst intern in 1 project, and qualitative researcher in another) I have a few manuscripts almost ready in my hand, should I mention them?

Hello esteemed fellow researchers,

I’m here to gather your valuable advice and insights. I’ve been assigned a task that I’d like to complete swiftly and systematically. I’m curious—what strategies would you recommend for tackling such a challenge?

A quick disclaimer: I’m not particularly familiar with technical tools, programming, or artificial intelligence, but I wouldn’t mind learning a thing or two along the way! Here’s the situation: I need to conduct a bibliographic search in my university’s database, combining a series of keywords. There are potentially around a hundred possible combinations.

How would you approach this task?

Thank you in advance!

I'm looking for book recommendations for a high school student with an interest in sociology. Ideally I'd like to find the sociology equivalent of Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, namely brief, punchy, almost sensational anecdotes to whet the appetite rather than a dry foundational tome. I'm not a sociologist, so the closest thing that I can think of is Nudge by Thaler and Sunstein, except in the field of sociology rather than behavioral economics and maybe with a bit less of that handwavy, pop-sci, airport book purchase flavor.

Who would you say are the most influential sociologists writing nowadays (last 5 years)? Or more influential books?

So I am looking for some theoretical and empirical readings where I can read about social differences and empathy. I would like to find some readings on sociology - not psychology. I know Bourdieu can be relevant in this case but I am kinda looking specifically the case of empathy where upper class (or we can any marginalized/nonmarginalized interaction) can have an understanding and empathize with the life conditons of the other and behaves accordingly. Let me know if you have any ideas on where to look.

Hi everyone! I'm currently doing my M.A. in sociology and I'm really interested in research on social and socioeconomic inequality, as well as social mobility. I'm looking for a few books to read outside of my coursework that can help me broaden my understanding of this field.

I'm based in europe, but I'm open to recommendations that focus on the international context—books about the u.s. are totally fine too! I've already heard about Piketty and his work (and also ordered his book where he also summarizes his two long books), but I'd love suggestions for more general introductory books, ideally at the graduate level, that offer a solid foundation before i dive deeper into specific topics.

My program places a strong emphasis on inequality research, quantitative methods, and even some computational social science, so books that align with those areas would be especially helpful.

In addition, if anyone here works in this field or has recommendations, it would mean a lot to me as a first-gen student trying to navigate this path, so it'd be nice to connect with someone, so you're free to DM me aswell. Thanks in advance! :)

A typical diagnostic for delineating between ethnicity and race is race being rooted in colonialism, either traditional or internal or towards people whom Grosfoguel (2004) classified as colonial immigrants. This does not exclude the existence of ethnic (i.e., not racial) conflicts, but it implies that such conflicts would not resemble colonial situations. If non-colonial ethnic conflicts don't actually exist, we could simplify the distinction down to ethnicity being when no conflict is present and race being when a conflict is present. My question then, is what are some examples of non-colonial ethnic conflicts if such things do in fact exist?

Hello!

I'm a masters student looking into Social Infrastructure and Social Cohesion. I'm having some difficulty in finding sources and sociologist authors that have worked on these subjects.

Does anyone have any tips for me?

Blatant post; although I do understand the heightened and constant prejudice there is against women(which is mostly underhanded, especially recently with Trump and shit.) I don’t entirely understand the sociology surrounding it. Also, extremely random to say, but how does this tie back to school outdated systems’ bias against victims of sexual assault, specifically regarding when the upper-handed individuals are women themselves? Sorry, im kinda brain dead rn and wanted an explanation I can’t give myself.

I'm trying to study One Dimensional Man by Marcuse, but just the introduction seems too complicated for me. Does it get easier or should I try to search for more explanations on Internet?

I am looking for anthropologists, sociologists or psychologists who have studied competition as a human behavior.

I feel like when Humans noticed that we reached the top of the food chain and were getting too comfortable, we decided to create another food chain within our social system and have us compete against one another again, at least in what some may call western style capitalism.

I want to know if there’s any big studies about how competition might be a part of humanity or society overall, and how it differs from culture to culture.

(apologies for dragging this out a ton i don’t really know if this is acceptable by the subreddits standards)

hii!! so i've been trying to get more educated on sociology, as i've reached a bit of an impasse between focusing on this, history, or politics, and my knowledge of the former is the weakest. due to my fairly basic high school coursework, i've mainly read works from more prominent figures (marx, durkheim, bourdieu, foucault, and the like), along with their "foundational texts," which, while interesting, leave me feeling like i'm not exploring a broad enough range of perspectives or topics. it's a bit of a shame, especially since sociology is such a vast field, and i think it would be really interesting to explore some of the more niche subfields, if that makes sense. however, therein lies the dilemma—it’s somewhat overwhelming to decide what to read next, as trying to choose between the sheer volume of works available on literally every event or belief system feels like an insurmountable task. i don’t really have anyone to ask, given that my teacher is a bit intimidating, and i didn’t really know what this discipline was about until three months ago, so figuring it out on my own has been a bit daunting (tiny brain, i fear, but currently attempting to expand). basically, if anyone has any interesting recommendations, i'd love to hear about them, regardless of the topic!!

I think my title pretty well explains what I've been thinking about. I'm in my last year of a sociology degree and I love sociology. I think that having a realistic perspective of the world around us is an important skill to have, and I believe sociology is a widely applicable undergrad. That being said, it is not very often that sociology looks at the positive side of things. I wish there was some final like you've learned all this, but here's what to do moving forward. Some closing thoughts on the degree as a whole maybe from my professors that have been working in the field most of their lives.

I'm not sure if anyone else feels this way, or maybe did have an experience like this?

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Hello! Im interested in getting a book regarding the transition of feudalism to capitalism, or capitalism to socialism. Or anything tying those three topics together. I know thats super broad, but any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Hey all. Im currently halfway through foucalts madness and civilization, which is the first book ive read of his. Im already aware of his general concept of power and power relations, which is why ive skipped that book.

Im currently considering getting his birth of the clinic book, but im unsure if ill be able to fully grasp it. I have no prior knowledge on the whole “medicalization” debate in the sociology world, so if anyone can suggest a simpler read maybe so i can get a grasp on it, thatd be greatly appreciated. Though if TBOTC is a generally easy book to read, i will also consider buying it. Lmk!!