Basics and Key Concepts – Sociology Dictionary

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List of the Basic concepts in the Sociology – updated !

•  Institutionalization

• Understanding Max Weber’s “Iron Cage”

• Egalitarian Society

• Ideal and Real Culture – Differences and Examples

• Ethnocentrism

• Culture Lag

• Resource Mobilization Theory

• philosophy

• Penology

• Peasant

• Plural Society

• Concept and Examples of Peer Group And its role, Cliques, Crowd

• Patrimonialism 

• Patriarchy

• pedagogy 

• patrilineal 

• Phratry Concept

• Parallel and Cross-Cousins

• Parallel descent

• Alienation

• Humanism

• Authority

• Social pathology

• Historical Sociology

• Abolitionism

• Totalitarianism  

• Anti Urbanism

• Anomie concept

• Agrarian society

• Paternalism

• Action theory

• Anarchism

• Anthropology

• Attribution theory

• Androgyny

• Idealism

• Human Rights

• Historiography

• Human Relations

• Asymmetric Society

• Absolutism

• Affluent Society

• Acephalous concept

• Affective Individualism

• Addiction

• Trauma

• Taboo

• Anthropomorphism

• Aesthetic

• Pastoralism

• Polytheism

•  Pilot Study in Research

• Psephology

• Misdemeanour: Meaning, Classification, and Examples

• Labelling Theory of Deviance

• Cultural relativism 

•  Fact-value distinction

•  Disengagement Theory of Aging

•  Bourdieu theory of cultural capital

• CULTURAL MATERIALISM

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