A Guide to Sociology: Special Topics

Provides articles on topics related to adolescence. Topics include academic achievement, depression, gender differences, juvenile crime, peer pressure, self-esteem and television.

Offers articles on a wide variety of topics relating to childhood, examining the different ways cultures raise children. Topics addressed include adoption, competition and cooperation, developmental stages, fatherhood, language acquisition, parenting styles, sex (gender) identity, and parents' preference for boy or girl children.

Covers topics related to aging in brief articles.

Includes articles on crime and alcohol, crime and drugs, legal aspects of drug abuse, specific drugs, physiological aspects of addiction, and more.

Offers articles on various topics concerning family issues. Articles define terms, and cover historical trends and events, health, people, laws, organizations, etc.

A wide-ranging exploration of food and its cultural significance worldwide.

Presents articles that describe patterns of homelessness, historically and in the contemporary world, causes, legal issues, advocacy, legislation, issues facing the homeless, research, and the extent and nature of homelessness in cities and countries around the world. Includes a number of primary source documents.

Entries cover people, major cities and suburbs and topics and issues related to cities and suburbs. Entries include topics such as "apartment buildings", "hospitals" "public housing" and "white flight".

Half of the encyclopedia contains biographies of prominent current and historical gay figures, but the work also contains articles related to culture, cultural identities, education, law, politics, psychology, sociology and theory.

Half of the encyclopedia contains biographies of prominent current and historical lesbian figures, the volume also contains articles related to culture, cultural identities, education, law, politics, psychology, sociology and theory.

Surveys patterns in marriage and family life throughout the world, covering topics such as intimacy, intergenerational relations, family policy, gender, and sexuality, as well as coverage of family life in fifty countries.

Explores the various facets of violence in nearly 600 articles on historical events, types of violence, research on violence, social issues, violence in the arts and popular culture, etc.