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 ...

Recent reform in U.S. school systems has focused on closing racial achievement gaps, but despite great efforts, are children being socially left behind? We know from prior research that adolescents see their relationships with peers, teachers, and parents as defining aspects of their lives and that the absence of these relationships is linked with a host of negative outcomes. Previous work also...

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The area of commonality has to do with the issue of subtle expressivity. I am interested in means—particularly as manifested in visual and auditory portrayals—of conveying complex and subtle expressions. And much of my work draws upon studies—principally from sociology—of the ways in which people notice and interpret large arrays of subtle cues expressed by ‘natural systems.’ The area of differ...

Panel data analysis is a method of studying a particular subject within multiple sites, periodically observed over a defined time frame. Within the social sciences, panel analysis has enabled researchers to undertake longitudinal analyses in a wide variety of fields. In economics, panel data analysis is used to study the behavior of firms and wages of people over time. In political science, it ...

The study of networks, sets of objects connected by relationship, is an important area in sociology. It helps to understand the causes and consequences of the structure or relationships in large groups of people. Recently, Zheng et al (2006) used a multilevel overdispersed Poisson regression model to estimate the variation of propensity to form ties to people in some groups (e.g. males in priso...

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 ...

In this article, we examine the problem of youth underemployment and how it is conceptualised, operationalised understood within wider sociology, with particular focus on sociology studies literature. We outline contours body work, showing in most cases undefined used as a general term to describe challenges inadequacies contemporary labour market for young people. Further, show despite lack cl...

When working together, people engage in non-contractual and informal interactions that constitute the sociology of the group. We use behavioral models and a unique survey of medical groups to analyze how group sociology influences physician incentive pay and behavior. We conclude that informal interactions among group members influence pay practices and behaviors, but the relationship is comple...