Introduction: Reflecting on Humanist Sociology

Sociology in China, sociology of China: Editor’s introduction

Editor’s Introduction: Methods of Interpretive Sociology

The Rationale The term 'interpretive' in the discussion of sociological methods is the most common translation of the German word 'verstehen,' but the German term is also translated as 'understanding'. There are many discussions and disputes over the translation of words between languages. What can be said about the meaning of interpretive method in sociology can be seen in discussions and disp...

Reflecting on imitation in autism: introduction to the special issue.

In response to our call for papers for a special issue of Journal of Experimental Child Psychology on functions and mechanisms of imitation in childhood, we received a surprisingly large number of manuscripts on a wide range of topics. We were happy and encouraged that so much interesting work is being done on imitation, and sorry that space and time constraints meant that we could not publish ...

Unit One: Introduction to Sociology of Education

Sociology primarily concerns itself with social relationships. A network of social relationships is called the society. The society is the sole concern of sociology. Though, there are other aspects of the social science that focuses on some other aspects of the society, the central concern of sociology is the social relationships of mankind. Sociology also uses scientific method in its study. S...

Introduction: Economics Meets Sociology in Strategic Management