Encyclopedia of Sociology

LIST OF ARTICLES

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POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS
David Knoke

POLITICAL PARTY SYSTEMS
Frederick D. Weil

POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY
J. Craig Jenkins

POPULAR CULTURE
Chandra Mukerji

POPULATION

Thomas W. Pullum

PORNOGRAPHY

Charles Winick

POSITIVE MENTAL HEALTH

Janet Hankin

POSITIVISM

Jonathan H. Turner

POSTINDUSTRIAL SOCIETY

Robert A. Fiala

POSTMODERNISM

Augustine Brannigan

POVERTY

Wayne J. Villemez

PRAGMATISM

David R. Maines

PREDICTION AND FUTURES
STUDIES
Alberto Gasparini

PREGNANCY AND PREGNANCY
TERMINATION
Lynn Borgatta

PREJUDICE

Marylee C. Taylor

Thomas F. Pettigrew

PROBABILITY THEORY

Ronald J. Schoenberg

PROBATION AND PAROLE

Joseph G. Weis

PROFESSIONS

Patricia A. Roos

PROTEST MOVEMENTS

Leonard Gordon

PUBLIC OPINION

Kurt Lang

PUBLIC POLICY ANALYSIS

James D. Wright

QUALITATIVE METHODS

Laura L. Ellingson

Carolyn Ellis

QUALITATIVE MODELS

Alex Durig

David R. Heise

QUALITY OF LIFE

Kyriakos S. Markides

QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL

RESEARCH DESIGNS

Kyle Kercher

Karl Kosloski

RACE

Susan R. Pitchford

RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY

Russell Hardin

RELIABILITY

Richard A. Zeller

RELIGION, POLITICS, AND WAR

John H. Simpson

RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS

Jeffrey K. Hadden

RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS

James R. Wood

RELIGIOUS ORIENTATIONS

Robert Wuthnow

REMARRIAGE

J. Jill Suitor

Shirley A. Keeton

REPLICATION

Lowell J. Hargens

RESEARCH FUNDING IN

SOCIOLOGY

Howard P. Greenwald

RETIREMENT

Melissa A. Hardy

Kim Shuey

REVOLUTIONS

Robert C. Liebman

ROLE THEORY

Bruce J. Biddle

ROLE THEORY: FOUNDATIONS,

EXTENSIONS, AND

APPLICATIONS

John H. Yost

James R. Bailey

RURAL SOCIOLOGY

Gene F. Summers

Frederick H. Buttel

SAMPLE SELECTION BIAS

Christopher Winship

Robert D. Mare

SAMPLING PROCEDURES

Lowell J. Hargens

SCANDINAVIAN SOCIOLOGY

Carl Gunnar Janson

SCIENCE

Warren Hagstrom

SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION

Linda Derksen

John Gartrell

SECONDARY DATA ANALYSIS

AND DATA ARCHIVES

Toby L. Parcel