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.
A
- Actor-network theory (18 P)
- Anarchist theory (11 C, 43 P)
C
- Conflict theory (3 C, 9 P)
- Social constructionism (4 C, 170 P)
- Cyclical theories (4 C, 9 P)
F
- Functionalism (social theory) (1 C, 14 P)
I
- Individualism (12 C, 32 P)
- Institutionalism (7 P)
M
- Marxism (14 C, 118 P)
- Marxist theory (8 C, 115 P)
- Moral panic (5 C, 40 P)
N
- Neo-Babouvism (9 P)
P
- Positivism (4 C, 18 P)
R
- Relativism (2 C, 19 P)
- Role theory (2 C, 11 P)
S
- Sociocultural evolution theory (1 C, 15 P)
- Structural functionalism (2 C, 12 P)
- Subculture theory (3 P)
- Symbolic interactionism (1 C, 11 P)
- Systems theory (6 C, 180 P)
Pages in category "Sociological theories"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 240 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
D
E
F
G
H
I
M
N
P
- Parallel Polis
- Parasocial contact hypothesis
- 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
- 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
- Social organism
- Social production of space
- Social rule system theory
- Social theory
- Social threefolding
- Socialization (Marxism)
- Sociocultural evolution
- Sociodicy