His PI, Dan Fortune, was consistently involved in the same sort of David-and-Goliath stories that Hammett, Chandler, and Macdonald wrote, but Collins took a sociological bent, exploring the meaning of his characters ' places in society and the impact society had on people.

He further emphasized the importance of dialect studies where appropriate, and noted the significance of sociological factors such as prestige, and the impact of meaning.

Media determinism, a subset of technological determinism, is a philosophical and sociological position which posits the power of the media to impact society.

" New Jersey artist Robert A. Emmons, Jr .’ s short documentary film Yard Sale, released in 2006, examines the American practice of buying and selling goods in one ’ s front yard and the sociological impact of such activities.

Burke pursued literary criticism not as a formalistic enterprise but rather as an enterprise with significant sociological impact ; he saw literature as " equipment for living ," offering folk wisdom and common sense to people and thus guiding the way they lived their lives.

* ( About the Collège, its members ( Bataille, Leiris, and Walter Benjamin ), sociological impact ( Marcel Mauss, Robert Hertz, Emile Durkheim ) and its influence on other philosophers ( Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, etc.

Noting Adler's position as a practicing Wiccan, and the impact which this would have on her study, Pike however felt that the book was " less defensive and apologetic than sociological studies conducted by many supposedly objective " outsiders ".

" Schoenfeld points to what he sees as Macdonald " s " unfamiliarity with both the sociological frame of reference and historical knowledge ", and as an example, notes that Macdonald's comparison of Jewish collectivism during the biblical period with eighteenth-and nineteenth-century English individualism " indicates a total ignorance of the impact of industrialization on Western societies ".

In the 1960s and 1970s so-called post-structuralist and postmodernist theory, drawing upon structuralism and phenomenology as much as classical social science, made a considerable impact on frames of sociological enquiry.

Media determinism, a subset of technological determinism, is a philosophical and sociological position which posits the power of the media to impact society.

The tribes of Central Australia had already become the object of worldwide interest through the joint work of exploration and ethnographic enquiry undertaken by Baldwin Spencer and Frank Gillen, whose researches exercised a notable impact on both sociological and anthropological theory, in the works of Émile Durkheim and James G. Frazer, and on psychoanalysis, in the thesis proposed by Sigmund Freud in his Totem and Taboo.

The universe portrayed in Kraith is not canon Star Trek, but its emphasis on stories with sociological, psychological and emotional plotlines had, and continues to have, a substantial impact on Star Trek fan fiction.

) Functionalism as a sociological credo is, therefore, not a direct consequence of observations, but rather an indirect consequence of philosophical inference and judgment.

I shall first indicate a couple of weaknesses in Fromm's analysis, then argue that, granted these weaknesses, he still has much left that is valuable, and, finally, raise the general question of a philosophical versus a sociological approach to the question of alienation.

Another approach is to say that “ art ” is basically a sociological category, that whatever art schools and museums and artists define as art is considered art regardless of formal definitions.

For a twentieth century thinker committed to the same ideal, government was an essential tool to the same end ... odern liberalism is instead the logical and sociological outcome of classical liberalism.

Extensive sociological, sexological and medical debate have focused on the clitoris, primarily concerning anatomical accuracy, orgasmic factors and their physiological explanation for the G-Spot, and whether the clitoris is vestigial, an adaptation, or serves a reproductive function.

Often, the term " critical theory " is appropriated when an author ( perhaps most notably Michel Foucault ) works within sociological terms yet attacks the social or human sciences ( thus attempting to remain " outside " those frames of enquiry ).

From a sociological point of view, Danielle Lindemann has noted the " embattled purity regime " in which many pro-dommes emphasise their specialist knowledge and professional skills, while distancing themselves from economic criteria for success, in a way which is comparable to avant-garde artists.

According to many Marxists influenced by Soviet Marxism, historical materialism is a specifically sociological method, while dialectical materialism refers to a more general, abstract, philosophy.

Detailed studies have been made in the anthropological and sociological customs of patrilineal succession, is also known as gavelkind, where only male children can inherit.

In modern sociological theory, Marxist sociology is recognised as one of the main classical perspectives.

A sociological setback occurs when conformity becomes a closed circle, prompting even more conformity ; a teacher who speaks in favor of individuality is regarded as subversive.

The earliest Laos legal document ( and the earliest sociological evidence about the existence of the Lao people ) is known as " the laws of Khun Borom " ( also spelled " Khun Bulom "), still preserved in manuscript form .< ref >

Stories earlier in the timeline feature technology such as Bussard ramjets, Drouds ( wires capable of directly stimulating the pleasure centers of the brain ) and explore how organ transplantation technology enables the new crime of organlegging ( as well as the general sociological effects of widespread transplant technology ), while later stories feature hyperdrive, invulnerable starship hulls, stasis fields, molecular monofilaments, transfer booths ( teleporters used only on planetary surfaces ), the lifespan-extending drug boosterspice, and the tasp which is an extension of the wirehead development which works without direct contact.

Although it is most often concerned with the study of non-Western musics, it also includes the study of Western music from an anthropological or sociological perspective, cultural studies and sociology as well as other disciplines in the social sciences and humanities.

Software developer and hyperreality theorist Alan N. Shapiro has written Star Trek: Technologies of Disappearance, examining the physics and computer science of all major Star Trek technologies, as well as posing the sociological question of why exactly our culture is so interested in building these technologies.

That is, they do not examine the biological, psychological, and sociological roots that make people see the benefits encouraging them to kiss another, cheat on a test, use cocaine, or murder someone.

Serendipity is used as a sociological method in Anselm L. Strauss ' and Barney G. Glaser's Grounded Theory, building on ideas by sociologist Robert K. Merton, who in Social Theory and Social Structure ( 1949 ) referred to the " serendipity pattern " as the fairly common experience of observing an unanticipated, anomalous and strategic datum which becomes the occasion for developing a new theory or for extending an existing theory.

The book is " a study in sociological semantics and the sociology of science ", as the subtitle of the book declares.

" Charles Morris adds that semantics deals with the relation of signs to their designata and the objects which they may or do denote ; and, pragmatics deals with the biotic aspects of semiosis, that is, with all the psychological, biological, and sociological phenomena which occur in the functioning of signs.

John Dewey, less broadly than James but more broadly than Peirce, held that inquiry, whether scientific, technical, sociological, philosophical or cultural, is self-corrective over time if openly submitted for testing by a community of inquirers in order to clarify, justify, refine and / or refute proposed truths.

Another important sociological aspect of tradition is the one that relates to rationality.

In keeping with Le Guin's soft science fiction style, the setting is used primarily to explore anthropological and sociological ideas.

While the causes of the 1692 witchcraft episode continue to be the subject of historical and sociological study, there is a consensus view that land disputes and perhaps economic rivalry among factions in Salem, Salem Village and Topsfield fueled animosity and played an underlying role.

Environmental sociology is typically defined as the sociological study of societal-environmental interactions, although this definition immediately presents the perhaps insolvable problem of separating human cultures from the rest of the environment.

While Ellul is perhaps most noted for his sociological work, especially his discussions of technology, he saw his theological work as an essential aspect of his career, and began publishing theological discussions early, with such books as The Presence of the Kingdom ( 1948 ).

: good, right, ripe – ( most suitable or right for a particular purpose ; " a good time to plant tomatoes "; " the right time to act "; " the time is ripe for great sociological changes ")

The word has somewhat pejorative connotations and most of the Mexican citizens who would be defined as mestizos in the sociological literature would probably self-identify primarily as Mexicans.

His poetry departs from his more serious sociological works, though it too harnesses nationalist sentiment: " Run, take the standard and let it be planted once again in Plevna / Night and day, let the waters of the Danube run red with blood ...." Perhaps his most famous poem was his 1911 Turan, which served to compliment his Turanist intellectual output: " For the Turks, Fatherland means neither Turkey, nor Turkestan ; Fatherland is a large and eternal country -- Turan!

It is considered to be one of the most important and widely cited studies of the process of religious conversion, as well as one of the first sociological studies of a new religious movement.

Micro-sociology courses at the University of Chicago were among the earliest and most prominent courses on urban sociological research in the United States.

Small Wonders have, for the most part, a sociological requirement to construct them, as well as a technological requirement.

While absent from empirical sociology, functionalist themes remained detectable in sociological theory, most notably in the works of Luhmann and Giddens.

He has written commentaries on most leading schools and figures and has used most sociological paradigms in both micro and macrosociology.

While criticizing certain aspects of the traditional sociological theory of secularization, however, David Martin argues that the concept of social differentiation has been its " most useful element.

IPM is the intelligent selection and use of pest control actions that will ensure favourable economic, ecological and sociological consequences and is applicable to most agricultural, public health and amenity pest management situations.

The Sociological Imagination ( 1959 ), which is considered Mills ' most influential book on the sociology profession, describes a mindset for doing sociology — the sociological imagination — that stresses being able to connect individual experiences and societal relationships.

Sumner's most popular book is Folkways: A study of the sociological importance of usages, manners, customs, mores, and morals ( 1907 ).

But Freyer also dreamt of building up a sociological think tank for the Third Reich-quite differently to most other sociologists, e. g. to the ( outspoken ) anti-Hitlerian Ferdinand Tönnies ( University of Kiel ) and to Leopold von Wiese ( University of Cologne ), and to the émigrés ( e. g. to Karl Mannheim, and to the up-and-coming René König, Paul Lazarsfeld, Norbert Elias, Theodor Adorno, Rudolf Heberle, and Lewis A. Coser ).

As in most continuities, Gordon decides in the Christopher Nolan trilogy that he prefers to remain ignorant of Batman's identity and agrees that his anonymity-even in death-has sociological value.

In 1998 the International Sociological Association listed this work as the fourth most important sociological book of the 20th century.

Everett Carll Ladd claimed that Putnam completely ignored existing field studies, most notably the landmark sociological Middletown studies, which during the 1920s raised the same concerns he does today, except the technology being attacked as promoting isolation was radio, instead of television or video games.

The sociological model can explain phenomena inexplicable on neoclassical terms, such as why firms do not fire workers who turn out to be less productive ; why piece rates are so little used even where quite feasible ; and why firms set work standards exceeded by most workers.

What Freyer tries to do in his critical statements is to show in what way the most abstract and universal sociological ideal types bare in themselves in form of their essential buildings a central of nonevident historical substance.

Perhaps the most obvious sociological category is the " possession trance.

In his most important volumes ( most of which attracted public attention only after 1944 ), Pătrăşcanu combined his commitment to Marxism-Leninism with his sociological training, producing an original outlook on social evolution ( focusing on major trends in Romanian society from the time of the Danubian Principalities to his day ).