This article aims to describe the tradition of merantau in Indonesian novels depicting Minangkabau community. The is a that has its roots and intends shape character younger generation. To analyze activity novel, sociology literature approach was used, especially genetic structuralism. theory structuralism relevant for dismantling because this related closely aspects novel. study concludes comm...

This issue of SER contains three articles on public sociology and economic sociology, which all have their origin in a session on this theme that was held at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in August 2006 in Montreal. The reason for organizing this session was a sense that ‘new economic sociology’ has ignored many of the issues that are associated with the term ‘publ...

Do all disciplines fret over the state of their own intellectual and policy-relevant health? Is it a symptom of our hyper-reflexive and confessional times that collective anxiety has to be rehearsed over the track record, and present and projected performance of a group of scholars? Medical sociology’s lengthy reflections on the state of its own practice are recognizable as part of a more gener...

1. Sociology's Relevance to International Relations 2. Historical Origins of Sociological Thought 3. Historical Sociology 4. The Historical Sociology of the State and International Relations 5. Principles of Historical Sociology 6. Problems with Historical Sociology 7. Sociology of Globalization 8. Global Versus Historical Sociology? 9. The Future Sociological Agenda in International Relations ...

sociology of literature, on the one hand, is related to sociology and ,on the other hand, to literature.this approach mainly focuses on the structure and the content of the literary work and its relation to the society. it also scrutinizes the interaction between literature and the society as well as how the writer reflects social issues from intellectual, religious and social perspectives inth...

The programme of analytical sociology brings sharp focus to fundamental issues insociology as a scientific discipline. Its practitioners offer a clear paradigm of how sociologicalexplanations ought to proceed, from individual actors to social outcomes. This essay considerslimitations of the approach as a general framework for all sociological research, however. Theessay surveys ...

Abstract The field religion and international relations (IR) has been established over the last twenty years within discipline of IR. It marks a new (largely twenty-first century) set interdisciplinary engagements, bringing together political science sociology religion. “Religion IR” “religious studies” continue to conduct their business independently, in different conferences, journals, book s...

175 words) Using data from the 2002 Iran Fertility Transition Survey (IFTS) collected in four Iranian provinces, the authors examine changes in elapsed time between marriage and first pregnancy. Across 1971-2000 marriage cohorts, a u-shaped pattern is observed. This pattern can be explained by: i) a monotonic decline in conception interval length possibly associated with a shift from arranged t...