Sociology
Articles about society, social groups and social processes.
Peer pressure
Peer pressure: social influence, types, effects and responses
Peer support
Pension
People-watching
Persecution
Plural ignorance
Pogrom
Pogrom — targeted ethnic and religious riots
Population growth
Population growth: definition, measurement, causes and consequences
Population pyramid
Population without double counting
Profanity
Proletariat
Promiscuity
Promiscuity: social meanings, sexual behavior, and biological perspectives
Prostitution
Prostitution: definition, forms, history, legal approaches and social issues
Protégé
Protégé: meaning, roles, history and distinctions
Queer
Queer: meaning, history, usage, and distinctions
Race (sociology)
Sociological concept of race: a social classification based on perceived physical differences, its historical origins, uses in institutions, and contemporary debates over identity
Race and crime in the United States
Racial profiling
Racial profiling: definition, contexts, legal issues, and responses
Racial segregation
Racial segregation: overview, history, forms, and contemporary issues
Radical feminism
Radical feminism: origins, principles, and debates
Role
Role (social role): definition, components, history, and examples
Sadomasochism
Sadomasochism: consensual pain, power and erotic practice
Sadomasochism refers to consensual erotic practices that involve pain, dominance, submission, or humiliation; part of the broader BDSM spectrum and governed by negotiation, consent
Sadri language
Same-sex relationship
Same-sex relationship: overview, history and social context
Sans-culottes
Sansei
Santali language
Santali language: overview, script, and cultural role
Sarcasm
Sarcasm: definition, cues, uses, and distinctions
School bullying
School bullying: causes, forms, impacts and prevention
School shooting
School shooting: definition, patterns, causes, responses and prevention
Second-class citizen
Second-wave feminism
Secrecy
Secrecy: definition, types, protection and social implications
Sector model
Sector model (Hoyt's urban land‑use model)
Secularization
Secularization: decline and transformation of religion in modern societies
Segregation
Segregation: forms, causes, history, and social effects
Serbs
Serbs: South Slavic people of the Balkans and Central Europe
Serfdom
Serfdom in Medieval Europe: Bound Peasant Labor, Rights, and Abolition
Sex segregation
Sex segregation: separation of people by sex in institutions and public life
Sex-positive feminism
Sexism
Sexual orientation
Sexual orientation: definitions, categories, causes, and social significance