Subfields of sociology

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Sociology has many subfields. This is a list of them:

• Applied sociology/sociological practice/clinical sociology
• Architecture, Sociology of
• Art, Sociology of
• Body, Sociology of
• Business, Sociology of
• Childhood, Sociology of
• Collective behavior
• Communication, Sociology of
• Conflict theory
• Consumption, Sociology of
• Critical Theory
• Comparative sociology
• Computational sociology
• Criminology
• Culture, Sociology of
• Demography
• Development, Sociology of
• Deviance, Sociology of
• Disaster, Sociology of
• Dramaturgical sociology
• Economic sociology, sociology of Economic development
• Education, Sociology of
• Emotions, Sociology of
• Environmental sociology (sociology of Human ecology)
• Ethnicity, Sociology of
• Evolutionary sociology
• Family, Sociology of the
• Fatherhood, Sociology of
• Feminist sociology
• Film, Sociology of
• Food, Sociology of
• Functionalism
• Gender, Sociology of (Sociology of sex roles)
• Gerontology (Sociology of Aging)
• Historical sociology
• History of science, Sociology of the
• Human sociobiology
• Immigration, Sociology of
• Industrial sociology also known as Sociology of industrial relations or Sociology of work
• Interactionism also known as the social action theory and symbolic interactionism
• Interpersonal relationships
• Knowledge, Sociology of
• Language, Sociology of
• Law, Sociology of
• Leisure, Sociology of
• Literature, Sociology of
• Markets, Sociology of, also known as Behavioral finance
• Masculinity, Sociology of
• Mathematical sociology
• Media, Sociology of
• Medicine, Sociology of also known as Sociology of medicine. See also Sociology of health and illness
• Memory, Sociology of
• Migration, Sociology of
• Military, Sociology of the
• Music, Sociology of
• Organizations, Sociology of
• Philosophy, Sociology of
• Political sociology also known as Sociology of politics, Sociology of government or Sociology of the state
• Popular culture, Sociology of
• Program evaluation
• Public sociology
• Punishment, Sociology of
• Pure sociology
• Racial and ethnic relations
• Race, Sociology of
• Religion, Sociology of
• Rural sociology
• Science and technology, Sociology of
• Social demography (also known as Sociology of demography, see also demography)
• Social psychology
• Sociobiology
• Sociological practice
• Sociography
• Social change, Sociology of also known as Sociology of change, see also social change
• Social inequality, Sociology of, also known as Sociology of inequality, see also social inequality
• Social mobility, Sociology of, see also social mobility
• Social movements, Sociology of, also known as Sociology of movements, see also social movements
• Social networks, Sociology of, see also social networks
• Social stratification, Sociology of (see also Social stratification)
• Sport, Sociology of
• State, Sociology of the
• Technology, Sociology of
• Terrorism, Sociology of
• Time, Sociology of
• Transport, Sociology of
• War, Sociology of
• Youth, Sociology of
• Sociometry
• Urban sociology
• Visual sociology