Talk:Sociological theory

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This should not be a disambiguation page - it is not a listing of unrelated concepts under the same name (e.g. Mercury, the car, Mercury, the planet, Mercury, the god, Mercery, the record label), but simply three ways of restating the same broad concept of a theory about society. Any comments on de-disambiguating it? BD2412 T 18:11, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Would you like to to be an article? Becauce, yes, I agree that that it's not a listing of un-related topics. Kilo-Lima ^{Vous pouvez parler} 19:44, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Indeed, I'd rather it be an article than a disambig page - it simply doesn't serve the purpose for which disambiguation pages are meant. BD2412 T

An article would surely be better, however care should be taken with redirects. Social sciences tend to use some synonims which can be quite confusing.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 01:51, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Content moved here from Sociological paradigms

To expand the stub article here, I moved the content of Sociological paradigms here as sociological theory is a more common term for theory in sociology. "Social theory" is also used, but the WP social theory article is about theory which is used across the social sciences, humanities and philosophy (which is the case). --Reswik 19:24, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Have changed the redirect from Sociological paradigms due to reasons discussed on Talk:Sociological paradigms. Will come back and try and remove duplication very soon. JenLouise 04:33, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

This page has been edited since the redirect. And various links on other pages point to this page by name. I suggest we leave content on this page until the issue of "paradigm" vs. "theory" is resolved at the Talk:Sociological paradigm page. --Reswik 19:33, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Origin of sociological theories

I removed this sentence from intro to list of soc theories: "Most of the major sociological theories are developed from a particular sociological paradigm (a broad school of thought in sociology)." This is questionable in that a number of sociological theories are syntheses across or combinations of various broad types of social theories. --Reswik 18:33, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] criminology

Is criminology a sub-discipline of sociology or is it inter-disciplinary? If it is the latter I would suggest putting the sociology areas first after the general theories area and then inter-disciplinary areas, such as criminology, last. Or, if they are all sociological theories in the interdiscplinary field of criminology, I would put a little intro sentence at the beginning of the list stating this. JenLouise 02:03, 7 May 2007 (UTC)