Research Starters™ - Sociology
Research Starters™ - Sociology provides students with a solid foundation for their research and assignments, as well as overview information on topics relevant to their studies. Comprehensive summaries of discipline-specific topics help students to grasp the broad outlines of a subject, realize its real world applications, critically engage it, and locate sources for advanced research. Articles average 3,000 words, providing concise yet more in-depth content than most textbook or encyclopedia entries.
Research Starters - Sociology contains Abstracts, a Keyword List of words pertinent to the articles, an Overview to explain various topics' relevance to sociology, Further Insights/Applications to demonstrate how the points discussed in the overview can be applied to everyday or academic issues in sociology, a Viewpoints/Issues/Discourse section to help the reader develop a critical perspective on a topic, a glossary of Terms & Concepts, a Bibliography and a Suggested Reading list.
The Research Starters - Sociology topics were chosen through careful analysis of the course offerings of college and universities with leading Sociology programs, e.g., Boston University, Dalhousie, Harvard University, New York University, McGill, McMaster, SUNY Albany, Syracuse University, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the University of California at Berkeley, University of Wisconsin at Madison and the University of Virginia. In addition, course offerings at 2-year colleges were evaluated and analyzed.
Subject matter experts holding advanced degrees in Sociology were consulted to ensure that the articles encompassed current trends and popular topics.
The Research Starters - Sociology articles are sorted among twenty-six categories, each of which contains between four and thirty-five article topics: Aging & Elderly Issues, Culture, Day to Day Social Interaction, Deviance & Social Control, Educational Sociology, Family & Relationships, Global Stratification, History of Sociology, Population, Urbanization & the Environment, Race & Ethnicity, Research Methods, Sex, Gender & Sexuality, Social Change, Social Interaction in Groups & Organizations, Social Issues & Public Policy, Social Movements & Collective Behavior, Socialization, Societies, Society & Technology, Sociological Theory, Sociology & Related Fields, Sociology of Health & Medicine, Sociology of Politics & Government, Sociology of Religion, Stratification & Class in the U.S., and Work & the Economy.
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