Sociology 2 encourages critical and theoretically-informed sociological understanding.

There has been a longstanding debate between those who draw their inspiration from Marx, and those who follow Weber, as to which approach is more useful as a way of developing a sociological understanding of class.

His contribution to the sociological understanding of the relationship between social systems and ecosystems was groundbreaking, prescient, and enduring.

Fact is there have always been and always will be those who feel threatened by changes in scientific and sociological understanding.

A rationalistic or purely sociological understanding of the Church, according to which she is merely a human organization with structures and activities.

But Lodge's sociological understanding is considerable, and Zapp serves very well as an 'ideal type' of a present-day academic.

Racial formation has solidified as one of the primary paradigms of sociological understandings of race.

This discusses the essential concepts of Weber's sociology: "ideal type," "empathic understanding," "imaginary experiment," "value-free analysis," and "objectivity of sociological understanding".

One of Dourish's most recognized contributions has been bringing sociological and phenomenological understandings of human activity to the design of technological systems.

If we fail to present this reality, we will not have achieved full sociological understanding of the phenomenon we seek to explain.