Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology

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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to sociology. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please feel free to sign up as a participant in the project or simply just dive into the project tasks.

Contents 1 Scope 2 Descendant WikiProjects 3 Similar WikiProjects 4 Participants 5 How you can help 6 Tasks 6.1 Proposed Sociology Portal 6.2 Clean up of Category:Sociology 6.3 Articles needing assessment 6.4 Articles needing work 6.4.1 Very general articles 6.4.2 Theories/sub-fields/topics 7 Tools 8 Projects in other languages

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to improve Wikipedia articles relating to sociology by organizing articles on the subject, locating notable weaknesses, and editing diligently.

[edit] Descendant WikiProjects

The descendants of this WikiProject are:

• Community
• Family and relationships
• Organizations
• Sexology and sexuality
• Social networks

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

Critical Theory | Culture | Ethnic groups | Gender studies | Linguistics | Philosophy | Psychology

[edit] Participants

• Sarge Baldy 05:52, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)
• Colipon+(T) 22:04, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Coreyander 02:58, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• JimCollaborator 18:14, Mar 2, 2005 (UTC)
• Lucidish 17:43, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
• CQ 16:07, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
• Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 14:45, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
• JenLouise 03:51, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
• Reswik 04:35, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
• zzuuzz ^(talk) 16:58, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
• RedHouse18 23:42, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
• Communicator1 15 October 2006 (UTC)
• KnivesDon'tHaveMyBack 07:28, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
• DrGaryWebb 20:25, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
• Signature^brendel
• User:Jujucabana 13:49, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
• Michkalas 00:04, 8 February 2007 (UTC) Mostly interested in Sociology of language, Sociolinguistics, Language and nation/nationalism, Language policy, the Politics of language.
• -- Walter Humala Godsave him! ^{(wanna Talk?)} 23:28, 11 February 2007 (UTC) Interested in Sociology Peru-related topics, it's such a hard topic.
• Aetheling 06:52, 3 March 2007 (UTC) (late to the party, as usual!)
• Jvbishop 20:05, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] How you can help

1. Locate pages that need attention, then add them to the tasks list or the the Open Tasks list.
2. Locate or create pages related to sociology and add them to Category:Sociology or appropriate subcategory. (See Category_talk:Sociology for discussion of subcategories.)
3. Add the Open Tasks box to your User: or User_talk: page. (Add {{SociologyTasks}} anywhere on the page.)
4. Add this page or the Open Tasks list to your watchlist, and work on projects listed.
5. Complete open tasks and check them off the list.

You can also add yourself to the list of participants above. Thanks for helping out!

[edit] Tasks

[edit] Proposed Sociology Portal

Sociology is an extremely broad area. Please announce this WikiProject and its proposal to build and maintain a Portal. If there is enough interest, we will make a formal proposal on Wikipedia:Portal/Proposals.

Portal:Sociology (prototype)

Portal:Sociology has been proposed from Wikipedia:WikiProject_Community and Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sociology.

[edit] Clean up of Category:Sociology

Please see Category talk:Sociology for further discussion.

• Move articles in Category:Sociology to the appropriate subcategory where possible.
• Identify possible new subcategories
• Reclassify articles not belonging in Category:Sociology.

[edit] Articles needing assessment

Unassessed Sociology articles

[edit] Articles needing work

Basically, everything needs work. Here are some general articles that really need attention:

[edit] Very general articles

• Sociology
• Community
• Society
• History of sociology
• Sociological theory
• List of basic sociology topics
• List of important publications in sociology
• List of publications in sociology
• Subfields of sociology
• Cultural system
• Discrimination (needs more sociology input)
• Rationalization
• Social change
• Social control
• Social justice (needs some sociology input)
• Social order
• Social organisation (social institutions redirects here)
• Social reality
• Social status
• Social stratification
• Social structure
• Socialization
• Sociological imagination
• Sociological perspective
• Sociological practice
• Structure and agency

[edit] Theories/sub-fields/topics

• Inclusion (disability rights)
• Community recognition
• Conflict theory
• Critical theory
• Feminist sociology
• Marxism
• Social constructionism
• Structural functionalism
• Symbolic interactionism
• Systems theory
• Demography
• Economic sociology
• Environmental sociology
• Gender
• Gender studies
• Homelessness
• Medical sociology
• Political sociology
• Race, Sociology of race (we need a gateway topic for sociology in relation to race and ethnicity) and Race and intelligence (quite problematic)
• Social movements
• Social network
• Sociology of culture
• Sociology of deviance
• Sociology of law
• Sociology of knowledge
• Sociology of religion
• Sociology of science and technology
• Women's studies
• Antiwar/War
• Environmentalism
• Love
• Trust (sociology)

[edit] Tools

• /Newsletter • Spreading the meme
• /Organization • Parsing the List of sociology topics
• /Assessment • Working with the Version 1.0 Editorial Team

	Pending tasks for WikiProject Sociology:	edit this list - add to watchlist
	Recruit project members Identify weaknesses in topic Brainstorm strategies for improvement

[edit] Projects in other languages

| German | French | Spanish | Polish |