Sociology and Politics
- Field (Bourdieu), a sociological term coined by Pierre Bourdieu to describe the system of objective relations constituted by various species of capital
- Field department, the division of a political campaign tasked with organizing local volunteers and directly contacting voters
- Sexual field, a term that describes systems of objective relations within collective sexual life
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... Sociology is the scientific study of human society and its origins, development, organizations, and institutions ... The traditional focuses of sociology include social stratification, social class, culture, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, social mobility, religion ... between social structure and individual agency, sociology has gradually expanded its focus to further subjects, such as health, medical, military and penal ...
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