Category:Sociological theories
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This category contains various sociological and sometimes interdisciplinary theories and paradigms. For the different variants of theories or paradigms, please see its individual sub-category. For philosophical theories about society see Category:Social theories.
Subcategories
This category has the following 20 subcategories, out of 20 total.
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- Actor-network theory (18 P)
C
F
I
- Institutionalism (7 P)
M
N
- Neo-Babouvism (9 P)
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R
S
- Subculture theory (3 P)
Pages in category "Sociological theories"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 247 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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C
- Capability approach
- Care drain
- Cass identity model
- Chicago school (sociology)
- Classical Marxism
- Collective behavior
- Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the ASA
- Comfort zone
- Comparative sociology
- Compliance gaining
- Conflict theories
- Contest mobility
- Control theory (sociology)
- Correspondence principle (sociology)
- Critical juncture theory
- Cultural criminology
- Cultural selection theory
- Culturalism
- Culture of poverty
- Curb cut effect
D
E
F
- False necessity
- Family Stress Model
- Fassinger's model of gay and lesbian identity development
- Feeling rules
- Feminism and racism
- Feminist theory
- Field theory (sociology)
- Figurational sociology
- Filter theory (sociology)
- Formal sociology
- Fourierism
- Frankfurt School
- French and Raven's bases of power
- Frog pond effect
G
H
I
M
- Management cybernetics
- Manifest and latent functions and dysfunctions
- Marxian class theory
- Marxism
- Matrix of domination
- Medical model of disability
- Merton thesis
- Methodological individualism
- Metric power
- Middle-range theory (sociology)
- Models of disability
- Modernization theory
- Mudsill theory
- Multiple jeopardy
N
P
- Parallel Polis
- Parasocial contact hypothesis
- Penitentiaries, Reformatories, and Chain Gangs
- People accounting hypothesis
- People power
- Performativity
- Phenomenology (sociology)
- Political opportunity
- Political Parties
- Positivism
- Postdevelopment theory
- Postmaterialism
- The Power Elite
- Power-control theory of gender and delinquency
- Preference theory
- Primary deviance
- Profane (religion)
- Promise theory
- Protestant work ethic
- Pure sociology
R
- Race relations
- Racial formation theory
- Racial literacy
- Racial threat
- Racial-ethnic socialization
- Rationalization (sociology)
- Social reality
- Reductionism
- Reflexivity (social theory)
- Regality theory
- Regulation school
- Relational sociology
- Relationalism
- Relative deprivation
- Resonance (sociology)
- Resource mobilization
- Reverse psychology
- The Rise of the Penitentiary
- The Rise of the Penitentiary in New York
- Rule complex
S
- Science capital
- Self-determination theory
- Self-verification theory
- Siege mentality
- Six degrees of separation
- Social balance theory
- Social breakdown thesis
- Social comparison theory
- Social complexity
- Social conflict theory
- Social construction of the body
- Social constructionism
- Social cycle theory
- Social Darwinism
- Social development theory
- Social entropy
- Social exchange theory
- Social impact theory
- Social interface
- Social model of disability
- Social movement impact theory
- Social movement theory
- Social network