Sociology

Articles about society, social groups and social processes.

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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

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)

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

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

Sexual violence

Shame

Shareholder

Sibling

Sidekick