Sociology Definition and 17 Threads

I'm about to make a bunch of comments on a (rather old issue of an) anthropological essay which is apparently issued by The Univeristy of Copenhagen. My beef with it is personal, and what really annoys me about it is it's patronizing tone. I'd rather not go into too much detail as I'm sure that...

I'd really like to know. :) Typically, practitioners of science treat the concerns raised by these disciplines in a very defensive manner. I don't mean to use "Philosophy" and "Sociology" interchangeably here, although that wouldn't be entirely wrong. In short, I'm really only interested in...

Could you guys put Philosophy, Sociology, History and Arts in the Homework sections? I would be very appreciated.

Sometimes experimental or observational evidence from credible physicists points to new physics and then turns out to be wrong due to statistical flukes, experimental error or a theoretical analysis mistake. What cases of this happening do you find most notable, what showed that the hints were...

If I had a choice between meeting the Dalai Lama and meeting Andrew Wiles, I would choose the latter. So, here I am. I study math and physics basically as a hobby. I just want to know and understand more about reality, especially since discovering that reality is all there is! And it's...

To the layman 2nd law of thermodynamics states that over time systems become more "disordered." You hear a lot of people trying to argue that Evolution contradicts the second law of thermodynamics, which we all know isn't the case. But, I find it interesting that while a species has managed to...

……Independence Family Clan Tribe Sovereignty Aristocracy Rebellion…… It seems to me that humans have repeated this same cycle of organization and disorganization throughout history. Would you agree? If so, do you think this cycle has...

What is it about some humans that allows them to treat animals as if they were mindless pieces of flesh grown in a test tube? http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20101217/ts_yblog_thelookout/undercover-investigation-of-smithfield-foods-reveals-factory-farm-horrors" . Please bear in...

I'm having trouble grasping my hands right around the ideas of functionalists view the politics of America? Politics I like, sociology I'm not convinced of yet. Also, how do their views differ, at all, from conflict theorists? I don't understand what their basis of thought is...

Theoretical physics presents what I think is potentially an interesting bunch of sociology-of-science case studies and examples. There is one guy (a string PhD named Ozzy Zapata) who is blogging specifically about this, has some fascinating comment: http://spinningthesuperweb.blogspot.com/...

In light of the many threads in this forum that discuss the sociolgy of physics, as opposed to the physics itself, I would like to propose that threads of the former type be separated from threads of the latter type, perhaps being moved to a different forum. PhysicsForums has a very admirable...

Do you think sociology professors are to the left, economics to the right on capitalism? I do!

It's not everyday that I find an 864 page book hard to put down, but I've been really engrossed in Harry Collins' book on gravity waves (theory and experiment) titled "Gravity's Shadow": https://www.amazon.com/dp/0226113787/?tag=pfamazon01-20 Part of this is because I took two classes from...

The last couple days in Sociology have been very argumentative. Here's why Why Race Exists As a Valid Means of Classification We humans have created a device to help classify and recognize the physical differences between living organisms. This identification system was created in order...

I thought about putting this in College Homework, but I felt that I could get more people that know about sociology in here. If you feel tempted to move it to homework help, so be it. Recently, I was given the assignment to type up a six page report using quantitive data on a "social...

I'd guess the answer is obvious :smile: My nextdoor neighbor's field is Linguistics. She specializes in Sociolinguistics---what can you tell about society from the words people use, and avoid using. She can listen to the news coverage of an event and often get an essay out of the...

Preface to the First Paperback Edition of The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements Originally published in 1998 by Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT © 2001 Kevin MacDonald Department of...