Applied Social Sciences: Sociology

by J.L. Conrad (Editor), Georgeta Rata (Revision)

This volume, Applied Social Sociology, offers the reader a wide collection of quantitative and qualitative studies from different research areas such as medical sociology, political sociology, sociology of communication, sociology of culture, sociology of education, sociology of migration, sociology of population, and urban sociology. Theoretical and empirical papers attempt to explain complex social phenomena, including attitudes and values concerning economic recession, culture, electronic communication, employment and professional training, exclusion/inclusion of vulnerable groups, individual and group identity, migration, representations, school, stereotypes, and transition. The current volume offers theoretical and empirical material to a wide diversity of professionals from the socio-humanistic field. The information is structured in order to help the reader construct a specific image on the studied social phenomena. At the same time, the volume is not it is also helpful and accessible to the general public, interested in interdisciplinary sociological approaches.

350 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2013

About the author

J.L. Conrad is the author of the full-length poetry collections A World in Which (Terrapin Books) and A Cartography of Birds (Louisiana State University Press). Her chapbook Recovery (Texas Review Press) won the 2022 Robert Phillips Chapbook Prize, and her chapbook Not If But When (Salt Hill) won the third annual Dead Lake Chapbook Competition. Her poems have appeared in Pleiades, Sugar House Review, Jellyfish, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere.