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The followingoutline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the discipline ofsociology:

Sociology – the study ofsociety^[1] using various methods of empirical investigation^[2] and critical analysis^[3] to understand humansocial activity, from themicro level of individualagency and interaction to themacro level of systems andsocial structure.^[4]

Sociology can be described as all of the following:

• The study of society.
• Academic discipline – body of knowledge given to - or received by - a disciple (student); a branch or sphere of knowledge, or field of study, that an individual has chosen to specialise in.
• Field of science – widely recognized category of specialized expertise within science, and typically embodies its own terminology and nomenclature. Such a field will usually be represented by one or more scientific journals, where peer reviewed research is published. There are many sociology-related scientific journals.
  • Social science – field of academic scholarship that explores aspects of human society.

Sociology

• Society

• History of sociology
• Timeline of sociology

• Positivism (Empirical sociology)

• Critical realism

• Structuralism

• Psychoanalytic sociology

• Critical theory

• Pure sociology

• Human ecology

• List of sociologists

Sociology journals
Magazines

Sociology books

Sociological associations

• SocioSite, a directory of sociology resources
• Sections ofAmerican Sociological Association
• Research Committees and Themes ofInternational Sociological Association, AIS
• (in French)Comités de Recherche de l'Association internationale des sociologues de langue française, AISLF
• (in French)Liste des réseaux thématiques de l'Association Française de Sociologie, AFS

• Sociology
• Outlines of social sciences
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• Articles with short description
• Short description matches Wikidata
• Articles with French-language sources (fr)