As religious folk practice is regarded as a radical departure from Marxist atheism, the abnormal existence of ghost marriages under Chinese socialist regime has attracted wide scholarly attention in anthropology and sociology. However, few scholars have focused on how courts treat practices, such marriages, despite official ideology. Based typological analysis case study involving 260 marriage ...

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 ...