Sociology

Articles about society, social groups and social processes.

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Street children

Street children: definitions, causes, vulnerabilities and responses

Street prostitution

Strike action

Strike action: purpose, forms, history and legal issues

Strip club

Strip club (adult entertainment venue)

Subculture

Subculture: Definition, Characteristics, History and Examples

Subsidized housing

Subsidized housing: public support for affordable homes

Suicide pact

Sundown town

Sundown town (racially exclusionary communities in U.S. history)

Surrogacy

Swatis

Sweatshop

Sweatshop: working conditions, causes, and responses

Sympathy

Sympathy: shared feeling, social role, and how it differs from empathy

Systems theory

Taboo

Taboo

Talcott Parsons

Talcott Parsons — American sociologist and architect of structural functionalism

Teenage pregnancy

Adolescent (Teenage) Pregnancy: Causes, Patterns, and Consequences

Teenager

Terrorism

Terrorism: definition, history, methods, and legal and political issues

Third party

Third sex

Transsexual

Trust (social science)

Upper class

Upper class: social definition, characteristics, history and influence

Urbanism

Victim blaming

Victim blaming: causes, history, consequences and ways to respond

Violence

Violence

Violence: forms, causes, and societal responses

An impartial overview of violence: definitions, common types (interpersonal, domestic, collective, structural), historical patterns, legal responses, impacts, and prevention strate

White-collar crime

White-collar crime: definition, types, history, and legal responses

Women's studies

Working class

Working class: definition, history, characteristics, and social role

Yonsei (fourth-generation Nikkei)