3 Authority, tradition, religion, personal experience, and mysticism are some ways in which you define your reality and what you know. Sociologists as people use these ways too, but as sociologists their emphasis is on thescientific methodas their major way of knowing. The scientific method is ...
Although statistics are usually utilised by sceptical sociologists for the purpose of debunking astrology and are rightly distrusted by many astrologers, here the statistics were not intended to prove or disprove astrology’s validity. They explore the multiplicity of attitudes and beliefs within the ...
It has been argued that sociologists “have understood music either as a product of cultural industries and art worlds, or as a resource in social action; in both cases the main interest is the social relations surrounding the musical object and its use in social settings, not the properties ...
Secondly, the love of a husband and wife is not extolled as an end in and of itself. Marriage is “a status and an office” as Bonhoeffer put it and over the long term it will be the right discernment of that office that will sustain and define the love that holds the couple togethe...
Rivera breaks club entry down into two factors defined by other sociologists, dubbedcompetenceandesteem. These work like this: You arecompetentif you show you know thespecificclub environment, contribute to it, and belong in it You areesteemedif people there know you and like you, or if you ...
One way that sociologists have understood the tensions between family, stigmatization, and immigrant mobilization has been through the concept of liminal legality [6]. Liminal legality refers to the in-between areas of political status that shape an immigrant's life [7]. Menjívar (2006) applied...