Sociology Book Research Articles

Re-thinking assimilation and why it matters: an intellectual, career and life journey – Richard Alba in conversation with Paul Statham

ABSTRACT Richard Alba, the American sociologist whose research is known for developing assimilation theory to fit the contemporary multi-racial era of immigration, reflects on the evolution of his thinking, influences and future directions for sociology in this interview. In a wide-ranging discussion, Alba talks about his early motivations and personal experiences that brought him to the topic of assimilation and his way of doing sociological research. He then moves on to discuss the impact of Re-making the American Mainstream (2003), co-authored with Victor Nee, one of the most highly cited books in sociology. After offering his thoughts on the benefits and limits of cross-Atlantic exchanges on integration and assimilation, Alba addresses recent challenges from postcolonial and critical race theories. The conversation then shifts to examine in detail some of his contemporary views outlined in The Great Demographic Illusion (2020) and elsewhere. Finally, Alba looks forward to the next steps of his journey.

Passages

Donald A. MacKenzie's Mechanizing Proof: Computing, Risk, and Trust is a highly readable and generally insightful history of, primarily, the effort to prove computer programs safe and correct. It won the Robert K. Merton (see the Passages column for October 2020) award from the Science, Knowledge, and Technology section of the American Sociological Association in 2003. It is a book of history and sociology, but is likely to also introduce some technical content that will be new to, yet of interest to, many software engineers.

Difficulties and obstacles facing the teaching of social studies for the intermediate stage from the teachers point of view

The researcher, through his simple experiences in the field of teaching and field communication with teachers of the social subject, identified that there are problems faced by teachers in teaching this subject, and this fact was confirmed through the survey conducted by the researcher, which showed the existence of problems he suffers from. teachers when teaching this subject. These obstacles and difficulties may be attributed to the fact that the social concepts contained in the book of Sociology for the intermediate stage are new to students at this stage. the following: (What are the difficulties and obstacles in teaching social studies for the intermediate stage from the teachers’ point of view?). Also, the social studies subject cannot provide the desired benefit without the use of good and effective teaching. The teacher is a cornerstone in the education process, because he is a link between the students and the curriculum. Educators agree that the teacher has an influential role in the behavior and personality of his students, and that he is an integral part of the school environment. And for the effectiveness of teachers and their activities in the success or failure of the educational process, and because the teacher is the link between the student and the curriculum through which we can learn about the most prominent obstacles, difficulties and impediments faced by the curricula, the researcher conducts his research, which can be the pioneer in this field, because there is no research in knowledge Difficulties and obstacles in teaching social studies for the intermediate stage from the point of view of teachers, according to the knowledge of the researcher.

Analisis Kalimat pada Teks Cerita Sejarah dalam Buku Sosiologi Kelas XI Kurikulum Merdeka

This article examines the analysis of sentence types in the History Text of Class XI Sociology Books in the Merdeka Curriculum. The content of this study uses narrative text. The purpose of this study is to describe functions, categories, and roles at the syntactic level. sentences in the presentation of sociology book material for class XI SMA/MA contained in Chapter 2 Social Problems Due to Social Grouping pages 41 to 81. This research is a literature study. Therefore, the method used in collecting data is reading and taking notes. The collected data were analyzed by descriptive analysis. In qualitative research, data is analyzed inductively, which means that specific things found during the research are grouped and conclusions are drawn from these results. This approach does not use the collected data to prove or disprove the hypotheses that have been made before but rather focuses on describing data to facilitate understanding. The writing method of this research adopts historiography as the main approach. Sentence structure analysis is also used to improve grammar skills and abilities to better understand. Sentence structure analysis itself is a topic that is rarely discussed. To improve the application of linguistic rules in writing historical texts, a good understanding of grammar, a broad vocabulary, and a habit of reading and writing historical texts are required. Therefore by analyzing sentence structures in historical texts in Sociology Class XI books SMA/SMA/ MA Kurikulum Merdeka, this research provides an overview of the variations in the use of sentence structures and the importance of correct grammar in understanding texts. It is hoped that this research can improve understanding of syntax and grammar which will facilitate understanding of sociology and historical texts.

The Quality Level of The Sociology Book from The Point of View of Supervisors and Teachers

This study aimed to determine the level of social quality of the book from the point of view of supervisors and teachers for the year (2021-2022). Our research community is (1018) teachers of both sexes in the Center of Arbil Province; (25%)of the research sample consists of (270)teachers of both sexes;The number of basic education supervisors wa(80), (25%), supervisors of our sample consisted of (20) supervisors, To achieve the objectives of the research, the researcher used the descriptive method in this study. The final research tools consisted of (116) criteria, divided into five fields, And it was applied to the research sample (supervisors and teachers) after analyzing the questionnaire, using statistical equations, we presented the results of the research, it was found that the quality level of the ninth grade textbook is weak from the point of view of supervisors and teachers in the city of Erbil.

Sociology of homosexuality in twenty-first-century China

This review provides a critical exploration of four key books in sociology of homosexuality published in mainland China since 2000, namely Wei Wei’s Going Public (2012), Queering Chinese Society (2015), Xiaoxing Fu’s Space, Culture and Performance (2012), and Qingfeng Wang’s Homosexuality Studies (2017). We identify three important themes from the books: space, family, and identity. Based on this, we demonstrate two characteristics of the sociology of homosexuality in twenty-first-century China, with its focus on the theoretical potentials of the Chinese case and its combination of sociological perspectives and multidisciplinary approaches.

Measuring the applicability of user-generated social tags along with expert-generated LCSH descriptors in Sociology: a heuristic study

The study attempts to compare user-generated social tags with expert-generated LCSH descriptors of one thousand sociology books. The objective is to examine if social tags can be used to enhance the accessibility of library collections. The study found that both datasets do not follow the same vocabulary. Though, the Spearmans’ rank correlation (0.89) indicates a good association between common terms in both vocabularies. The Jaccard similarity coefficient (J = 0.13, 0.14, 0.17, 0.15 and 0.16) in different word clusters proves that top frequent social tags and top frequent LCSH descriptors used by users and experts are different. The comparison with each book also reveals that 555 books (55.5%) have 50 to 100 percent matching between both vocabularies. LCSH descriptor vocabulary contains more subject terms (24) than social tag vocabulary (12) out of the top thirty frequent terms. The comparison of social tags with MARC subfields ($a, $x, $y, $z, $v) reveals that users use more or less all the subfield terms as tags but either they do not use chronological terms ($y) for tags or use different terms other than experts for chronological information. Further, comparison with each book title reveals that social tags alongside LCSH descriptors can enhance the title-based search of libraries. Moreover, the study suggests that usage of social tags will not only enhance the accessibilities of library resources under sociology but also complement to controlled vocabularies by supplementing a variety of terms other than experts.

Analysis of the Sociology Book for the Second Intermediate Grade in the Light of Productive Thinking Skills

This research aims to know the productive trading skills and the requirements provided in the social studies book for the middle class. The research community and its sample are determined by the social book for the second intermediate grade (first edition, 2018 AD) and what it contains of texts, questions, activities and informational information, and its pages amounted to (129) pages out of a total of (129) pages. The researcher repeated the analytical descriptive approach, and the research tool was represented by a questionnaire in analyzing thinking skills in thinking skills, induction, conclusion, fluency, flexibility, originality, and it included (46) sub-indicators and their validity and reliability were verified. Reliability (85.92%) with the two methods of stability over time and stability among analysts by adopting Cooper's equation as a statistical method for research. • The number of repetitions obtained by writings amounted to (1313) distributed repetitions, and he obtained seven skills, amounting to seven varying degrees. • The seven skills that were included in the book Sociology Collectively represented a descending order with (interpretation, deduction, induction, fluency, originality, predictions, flexibility) where the results are skills (interpretation, deduction, induction, fluency) while the results show skills (predicting assumptions, flexibility), originality) when compared to relativity.

Review: Petition for a Manifesto for Rooting and Liberating Arab Sociology [Mishkat Mithaq Ta’sseel wa Tahrir ‘Ilm al Ijtima‘a al ‘Arabi], by Mahmoud Al Dhaouadi

Review: <i>Petition for a Manifesto for Rooting and Liberating Arab Sociology [Mishkat Mithaq Ta’sseel wa Tahrir ‘Ilm al Ijtima‘a al ‘Arabi]</i>, by Mahmoud Al Dhaouadi

فاعلیة استراتیجیة حوض السمک فی تدریس مادة علم الاجتماع لتنمیة ثقافة الحوار لدى طالبات الصف الثانی الثانوی العام

المستخلص: يهدف البحث إلى تعرف مدى فاعلية استراتيجية حوض السمک لتنمية ثقافة الحوار لدى طالبات الصف الثاني الثانوي العام ، وقد تطلب البحث قيام الباحثة بإعداد دليل المعلم وکتاب الطالب ، وتطبيق أداة البحث وهى اختبار ثقافة الحوار أختبار مواقف وقد شملت عينة البحث (60) طالبة بمدرسة الشهيد البطل عبدالباسط حسن عبدالباسط التابعة لإدارة المعصرة التعليمية بمحافظة القاهرة ؛ وتم تقسيمها إلى مجموعتين متساويتين تجريبية وضابطة . وقد أظهرت نتائج البحث فاعلية استراتيجية حوض السمک لتنمية ثقافة الحوار لدى طالبات الصف الثاني الثانوي الدارسات لمادة علم الاجتماع . The effectiveness of an aquarium strategy in teaching sociology to develop a culture of dialogue for second-Year high school students” Abstract: The research aims to investigate the effectivenees of an aquarium Strategy in teaching Sociology to develop culture of dialogue for secondary School girls studying the Sociology subject. The Research has required from the researcher to prepare the second and the third units from sociology book. The research required preparing the teacher’s guide and the student book in addition to applying the search tool: the culture of dialogue tes “ a situations test “ . the research sample included (60) girl at the martyr hero Abdel baset Hassan Abdel baset secondary school in the administration of the educational press and the sample was divided into two equal group , an experimental group and control one . The results of the research showed the effectivenees of an aquarium Strategy in teaching Sociology to develop culture of dialogue for secondary School girls studying the Sociology subject.

Toward a bridge theory of modernity: Seeing self and society as processes

The examination and exploration for the nature and meanings of Modernity have been recently presented in philosophy, sociology and psychology books and journal articles. This article presents some of the important ideas in these disciplines and provides a perspective that integrates three disciplines (Philosophy, Sociology, and Psychology) and five authors’ views on Modernity (Charles Taylor, Jaan Valsiner, Anthony Giddens, Herbert Hermans, and Hartman Rosa). The paper first presents an overview of these authors. It goes on to illustrate several common themes of their work: 1) the role of narrative and a semiotic perspective as tools for understanding modernity, 2) a developmental orientation and exploration of how self and society might be seen as developmental processes, and 3) a beginning of a reorienting of philosophy, sociology and psychology as interconnected disciplines. The goal of presenting the views of these authors is to gain a perspective on why it is valuable to understand the historical period we live in (modernity), the roles played by narrative and semiotics and the developmental nature of humans and their culture, and how listening to the melody and tone of modernity aids in understanding modernity.

The Untruth Friendship and Starvation in Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh

This research aims to explore (1) the untruth friendship of Winnie-the-Pooh and (2) its advice for solving starvation of human being in Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh. The research is a descriptive qualitative method with the support of semiotic approach. It uses smoke-fire concept in Pierce’s Index to look after Aristotle’s 8 characteristics of friendship. Those are explored through Winnie-the-Pooh novel as a primary data and Nicomachean Ethics, book of sociology, and dictionaries as a secondary data. The research discover the untruth is over 4 acts of characters. It keeps some friendship characteristics within. Therefore, those 4 acts directs a man to get a help of a friend.

Discounting of Evolutionary Explanations in Sociology Textbooks and Curricula

Despite being internally fragmented by clashes of paradigms, sociology textbooks and introductory courses show a remarkable similarity in their content, while they share a peculiar neglect of small scale societies, non-human social relations, as well as evolutionary explanations. The mistreatment is explained by the strong position of sociology in the nature vs. nurture debate, by paradigmatic and ideologically motivated condemnations, by the later misuse of Social Darwinism, by certain unresolved issues of evolutionary explanations of human sociality, and by epistemological critiques of evolutionary explanations. The current study assesses the extent of this avoidance in sociology by three methods: a review of major sociology textbooks, a descriptive quantitative text analysis of introductory course outlines at top ranked universities, and a keyword search in the all-time most emblematic classical books in sociology. In reaction to this mistreatment, the benefits of synthesis of sociological explanations with evolutionary thinking are discussed.

Enquadramentos das vidas não hétero em livros escolares de Sociologia

Resumo Este artigo discute como as vidas não hétero são enquadradas nos livros de Sociologia de Ensino Médio do Programa Nacional do Livro Didático de 2015. Tais livros tratam de questões LGBT, diferentemente do que ocorre em grande parte dos livros didáticos, em que essas questões são silenciadas. Analisando a totalidade de livros de Sociologia aprovados pelo edital de 2015, o artigo apresenta enquadramentos regulares, em que se reconhece um campo de continuidades em uma mesma ordem discursiva, e enquadramentos descontínuos, que apresentam rupturas a essa ordem. De forma geral, os modos de abordar as vidas LGBT se situam em uma lógica outrificante que separa e distancia quem lê das vidas em debate. Os enquadres descontínuos são breves, mas apresentam uma abertura, uma diferença nos modos de apresentar as questões LGBT no conjunto das obras, indicando direções possíveis.

Desafios de adoção do livro didático de sociologia e formação continuada de professores

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1980-3532.2015n13p132Este artigo discute adoção do livro didático de sociologia e a política de formação continuada de professores em uma relação de reciprocidade. O livro didático de sociologia possui características e funções bastante instrutivas para o professor, especialmente no contexto de reintegração da Sociologia nos currículos do Ensino Médio. Pode mediar um discurso científico a um domínio cognitivo apropriado ao Ensino Médio, adquirir função de currículo, ou mesmo como formação ou informação de professores, entre outros atributos. No entanto, a adoção do livro didático pelos professores tem passado por alguns desafios, que envolvem, muitas vezes, questões formativas. Baseado em pesquisa realizada em João Pessoa-PB e Pesqueira-PE, com os professores de sociologia da rede estadual de ensino, durante o ano de 2015, a formação continuada de professores aparece como uma ferramenta política essencial para a adoção do livro didático de sociologia pelos professores.

Bernard Magubane’s The Making of a Racist State Revisited

The year 2016 not only marks the 20th anniversary of Bernard Magubane’s classic book in historical sociology, The Making of a Racist State: British Imperialism and the Union of South Africa, 1875-1910, but it is also a year in which White South Africans engaged in racial bigotry on social media. A number of commentators, together with South African politicians, have argued that racism in South Africa should be “criminalized.” This review essay argues that such an approach is not only ahistorical but that it also mistakes the unessential for the essential. In particular, the review essay conducts a close reading of Magubane’s book in an effort to gain insights on how best to understand racism.

Exploring the ‘Socio’ or Socio-Legal Studies. By Dermot Feenan. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 307pp. $105 Cloth.

Exploring the 'Socio' or Socio-Legal Studies. By Dermot Feenan. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 307pp. $105 Cloth.In this book, legal scholar and research fellow in law, Dermot Feenan, corrals some of the leading scholars in the field of law and society, legalstudies,aswellasthefocusof the book, sociolegal studies. In writing this review, I found myself initially wanting to simply write that sociolegal studies is a method scholars use to simplify their explanation of what they research. However, each scholar, beginning with Feenan, clearly introduces and explains that the plays a definitive role in sociolegal studies. The distinction, one in which the scholars in the book explore, examines the aspects of the social and society in the legal. That is, there is a two-way road regarding how law effects society and how society effects law.As a legal scholar working in the social sciences, humanities, and the field of law, Feenan is the optimal editor to efficiently gather some of the field's leading scholars on sociolegal studies. Feenan helps explain precisely how and why the study of the socio is important. His claim is that the socio in sociolegal studies involves a doubling of the social, both the subject and method of inquiry (p. 33). Essentially, this means that the problems set by the theoretical frames are sufficiently addressed with this approach. Susan Silbey, a contributor to the book and professor of sociology and anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, aptly asks, what do we do with this insight? I suggest that Feenan's array of scholars sufficiently answer that question.The book is broken up into 13 chapters, each providing contextual inquiries into the socio of sociolegal studies. The first several parts, which include six chapters, provide introductions regarding how the notion of socio has been contested and the historical and theoretical inquiries associated with that/those questions. Legal scholars, including, Julia Shaw whose work on law, legal theory, and legal semiotics, posit that language has an ordering function and the unique ability to categorize social subjects and, significantly, it is able to construct the individual by reference to a dominant ideology... (p. 111). This leads one to see that law can form various truths that may help provide legitimacy to the power hierarchies in place. Of course, this also means that those legal hierarchies are able to maintain their structures of power for additional periods of time, even during times of social upheaval. Ultimately, this means that the notion of sociolegal studies needs to widen its audience, particularly by addressing the group of disenfranchised and downtrodden who need the benefits of the law. …

Supporting the “metascientific” community

We would like to welcome two new additions to the editorial team at Springer looking after Metascience. Jos Walbeek has retired, passing the baton to Catherine Murphy to take over as Production Co-ordinator. We wish Jos the best in his retirement and thank him for his efforts over many years overseeing the production of the journal. Steve O’Reilly has also joined the team assisting Publishing Editor, Lucy Fleet. We would like to welcome Catherine and Steve to Metascience, and we look forward to working with them. Indeed, Catherine was instrumental in helping us meet our production deadline for the July issue of Metascience. There has also been a recent change to the Editorial Board, with the departure of Richard Menary. We thank Richard for several years of exceptional service to the journal and wish him all the best in his work. While there have been some personnel changes in recent times, the ambition of the journal remains the same, to publish high-quality reviews of books in history, philosophy and sociology of science and technology. As editors we are mindful of the reputation of the journal and the audience it reaches through its wide coverage of topics. Since 1996, almost 1400 articles have been published in 58 issues, on topics ranging from ancient Greek mathematics to twentieth-century scientific biographies and contemporary approaches to philosophy of science. Metascience has established this appeal since its first edition in 1984 as a publication of the Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (AAHPSSS). In that edition, the former president of AAHPSSS, Lyndsay A. Farrall introduced the journal with a reminder to readers of the ‘‘broad

The Declining Significance of Race in the twenty-first century: a retrospective assessment in the context of rising class inequality

No other book in modern sociology is so well known but yet so roundly dismissed as William J. Wilson's The Declining Significance of Race. Its major thesis is supported, however, by a great deal of credible and systematic evidence. Its historical analysis is notably informative and prescient in predicting rising class inequality. The Declining Significance of Race remains vitally important reading for enhancing our understanding of inequality in contemporary America.

Rudolf Andorka, an Emblematic Hungarian Sociologist of the Second Half of the 20th Century

A methodologically based point of view of the second half of 20th century’s Hungary shows a society driven by forces of various historical processes and paradoxical consequences of democratisation. Rudolf Andorka, an empirical sociologist examining Hungarian society in the socialist regime and after the transition in the 1990s, proves inherent and historically rooted social and spatial inequalities supplemented with the analyses of the underdeveloped rural settlement structure and village-town dichotomy. As a social scientist Andorka was stigmatised for his political untrustworthiness. He was arrested for political reasons and had a harsh beginning to his career. Andorka had a multidisciplinary stance in sociology, demography, economics and even beyond the scope of sociology. He took part in various research from regional inequalities through Household Panel Surveys and time series data analyses to deviant behaviour. His criticism of the socialist totalitarian regime was based on a specific approach to analyse social phenomena and gave rise to an innovative trend within Hungarian sociology. He is considered to be one of the founders of modern sociology in Hungary and his concise book of sociology (re-compiled) continues to be the basis of sociological studies at Hungarian universities and his approach to analysing society is prevalent until this day.