From the middle of the 19 century until the last decade of the 20, the Marxist tradition provided the most systematic body of ideas and social theory for radical critics of capitalism as an economic system and social order. Even those critics of capitalism who did not directly identify with Marxism relied heavily on Marxist ideas about class, exploitation, commodification, the state, ideology. ...

The increase in the number of never-married and not-cohabiting singles, or “effective singles,” was first observed Japan Southern Europe. In Northern Western Europe North America, increased singlehood due largely to cohabitation. Existing sociological theories singlehood, however, are formulated based on observations latter, fall short explaining why more individuals remain unpartnered. wealth ...

What about the security of Information Society itself? We examine what are the most prevalent statements related to this system level. Subsequent to analyzing these, we will try to find out what constitutes the ‘knowledge sociological/theory of knowledge’ domain in which current theories are formulated. After that, we will attempt to comprehensively justify that the discourses dealing with the ...

During the last 30 years sociologists Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss have formulated and developed in great detail their grounded theory perspective on social science research. In their work they have consistently argued for the inductive discovery of theory grounded in systematically analyzed data. Their inductive perspective has stemmed in part from their dissatisfaction with the prevalent ...