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 sub-pages 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 tagged as inactive 2007-09-27
• Organizations
• Sexology and sexuality
• Social networks deleted 2007-03-29

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

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

[edit] Participants

1. BwycheBwyche 16:52, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
2. Sarge Baldy 05:52, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)
3. Colipon+(T) 22:04, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
4. Coreyander 02:58, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
5. JimCollaborator 18:14, Mar 2, 2005 (UTC)
6. Lucidish 17:43, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
7. CQ 16:07, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
8. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 14:45, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
9. JenLouise 03:51, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
10. Reswik 04:35, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
11. zzuuzz ^(talk) 16:58, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
12. RedHouse18 23:42, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
13. Communicator1 15 October 2006 (UTC)
14. KnivesDon'tHaveMyBack 07:28, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
15. DrGaryWebb 20:25, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
16. Signature^brendel
17. User:Jujucabana 13:49, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
18. Michkalas 00:04, 8 February 2007 (UTC) Mostly interested in Sociology of language, Sociolinguistics, Language and nation/nationalism, Language policy, the Politics of language.
19. -- Walter Humala Godsave him! ^{(wanna Talk?)} 23:28, 11 February 2007 (UTC) Interested in Sociology Peru-related topics, it's such a hard topic.
20. Aetheling 06:52, 3 March 2007 (UTC) (late to the party, as usual!)
21. Jvbishop 20:05, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
22. Anthony.Adams.1 13:13, 12 April 2007 (UTC) Interested in sociology in general
23. Empty Hat 01:46 08 June 2007 Interested in the sociology of memory
24. --Hammard 20:19, 29 July 2007 (UTC) interested in sociology in general, already contributedto several sections.
25. Mike3550 22:36, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
26. --Rw649306 15:47, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
27. Mattlw12 23:17, 19 September 2007 (UTC) interested in learning more about sociology
28. Masterpiece2000 04:14, 3 October 2007 (UTC) I am interested in sociology.
29. Pundit 13:53, 5 December 2007 (UTC) I am interested in organization studies and workplace culture
30. Userafw (talk) 10:25, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
31. Grrrlriot (talk) 03:22, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
32. Fulldisclosure07 (talk) 15:24, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
33. Elle (talk) 05:47, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
34. PStrait (talk) 04:12, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
35. User:Akitora (talk) 21:23, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
36. Tban (talk) 01:53, 3 May 2008 (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
• Institutionalisation
• 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
• Status attainment
• Violence

[edit] Theories/sub-fields/topics

• Inclusion (disability rights)
• Community recognition
• Conflict theory
• Consumerism ( i think this a important topic - regarding the recent situation)
• Critical theory
• Feminist sociology
• Social constructionism
• Structural functionalism
• Symbolic interactionism
• Systems theory
• Demography
• Economic sociology
• Environmental sociology
• Gender
• Gender studies
• Hegemony
• Homelessness
• Media Studies
• Medical sociology
• Political change
• 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 the body
• 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)
• Historical materialism
• Babywise (HELP WANTED!!! This article was originally posted by bias critics of the book On Becoming Babywise and needs non-bias edits. By "bias critics" I mean that much of the contribution to this article has been done by a person who openly opposes "Babywise" and the authors of this book on blogs, forums, as well as the source cited as a "Major site critical of". I can identify this editor of more than half of the historical changes to this article from the same IP addresses as were found in comments this person left on my personal blog within hours of editing this article. This same person is a moderator of the forum linking in the article as "Ezzo Parenting Discussions". The bias nature of the article can easily be seen in the fact that no official source for "Babywise" or the author was added to this article in the first five months of its existence even though sources to sites critical of the book were added from the IP address of the person mentioned above. I am personally bias in favor of the subject of this article.)

[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

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