Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology

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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to sociology. This page and its sub-pages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please feel free to sign up as a participant in the project or simply just dive into the project tasks.

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[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to improve Wikipedia articles relating to sociology by organizing articles on the subject, locating notable weaknesses, and editing diligently.

[edit] Descendant WikiProjects

The descendants of this WikiProject are:

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

Anthropology | Critical Theory | Culture | Ethnic groups | Gender studies | Linguistics | Philosophy | Psychology

[edit] Participants

  1. Sarge Baldy 05:52, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)
  2. Colipon+(T) 22:04, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  3. Coreyander 02:58, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  4. JimCollaborator 18:14, Mar 2, 2005 (UTC)
  5. Lucidish 17:43, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
  6. CQ 16:07, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
  7. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 14:45, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
  8. JenLouise 03:51, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
  9. Reswik 04:35, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
  10. zzuuzz (talk) 16:58, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
  11. RedHouse18 23:42, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
  12. Communicator1 15 October 2006 (UTC)
  13. KnivesDon'tHaveMyBack 07:28, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
  14. DrGaryWebb 20:25, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
  15. Signaturebrendel
  16. Jujucabana 13:49, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
  17. Michkalas 00:04, 8 February 2007 (UTC) Mostly interested in Sociology of language, Sociolinguistics, Language and nation/nationalism, Language policy, the Politics of language.
  18. -- Walter Humala Godsave him! (wanna Talk?) 23:28, 11 February 2007 (UTC) Interested in Sociology Peru-related topics, it's such a hard topic.
  19. Aetheling 06:52, 3 March 2007 (UTC) (late to the party, as usual!)
  20. Jvbishop 20:05, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
  21. Anthony.Adams.1 13:13, 12 April 2007 (UTC) Interested in sociology in general
  22. Empty Hat 01:46 08 June 2007 Interested in the sociology of memory
  23. --Hammard 20:19, 29 July 2007 (UTC) interested in sociology in general, already contributedto several sections.
  24. BwycheBwyche 16:52, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
  25. Mike3550 22:36, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
  26. --Rw649306 15:47, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
  27. Mattlw12 23:17, 19 September 2007 (UTC) interested in learning more about sociology
  28. Masterpiece2000 04:14, 3 October 2007 (UTC) Sociology of deviance, education, and work. I am also interested in sociobiology and social psychology.
  29. Pundit 13:53, 5 December 2007 (UTC) I am interested in organization studies and workplace culture
  30. Userafw (talk) 10:25, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
  31. Grrrlriot (talk) 03:22, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
  32. Fulldisclosure07 (talk) 15:24, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
  33. Elle (talk) 05:47, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
  34. PStrait (talk) 04:12, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
  35. Akitora (talk) 21:23, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
  36. Tban (talk) 01:53, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
  37. Tyciol (talk) 14:57, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
  38. Tim010987 (talk) 09:16, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
  39. Patrick HO (talk) 15:36, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
  40. --Cdestree (talk) 22:02, 18 August 2008 (UTC) human trafficking, contemporary slavery, forced labor, child soldiers
  41. LAWRopiak 05:54, September 15, 2008
  42. Cencere 00:04, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
  43. DarwinPeacock 22:39, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
  44. Pondle (talk) 18:43, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
  45. rwcash (talk) 5:26, 10 January 2009 I am interested in urban sociology, and anthropology mostly
  46. Here was ... said: Rursus (bork²) 15:43, 20 January 2009 (UTC).
  47. Millennium Twain (talk) 12:36, 16 March 2009 (UTC) Working in areas of Pre-history, Indigenous, and Woman's (GrandMother's, Oral and Intangible ) Wisdom/Knowledge. First article SpiritWorld, first experienced 'vandalism' at Feminism_in_Japan.
  48. SDreamer«» 15:52, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] How you can help

  1. Locate pages that need attention, then add them to the tasks list or the the Open Tasks list.
  2. Locate or create pages related to sociology and add them to Category:Sociology or appropriate subcategory. (See Category_talk:Sociology for discussion of subcategories.)
  3. Add the Open Tasks box to your User: or User_talk: page. (Add {{SociologyTasks}} anywhere on the page.)
  4. Add this page or the Open Tasks list to your watchlist, and work on projects listed.
  5. Complete open tasks and check them off the list.

You can also add yourself to the list of participants above. Thanks for helping out!

[edit] Tasks

[edit] Proposed Sociology Portal

Sociology is an extremely broad area. Please announce this WikiProject and its proposal to build and maintain a Portal. If there is enough interest, we will make a formal proposal on Wikipedia:Portal/Proposals.

Portal:Sociology (prototype)

Portal:Sociology has been proposed from Wikipedia:WikiProject_Community and Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sociology.

[edit] Clean up of Category:Sociology

Please see Category talk:Sociology for further discussion.

[edit] Articles needing assessment

Category:Unassessed sociology articles

[edit] Articles listed for deletion

I'm not sure where this should be listed, but perhaps someone can help Edgepedia (talk) 19:46, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Articles needing work

Basically, everything needs work. Here are some general articles that really need attention:

[edit] Very general articles

[edit] Theories/sub-fields/topics

[edit] Articles needing review

  • Jock I've just tagged it as part of the Sociology project, I'm not sure, but as it is a youth sub-culture, I thought it would belong here. Unfortunately it portrays jocks entirely as a media stereotype, an artificial plot device, when anyone whose been to school knows that there is usually a clearly identifiable group of (usually male) students who are known to be athletes. Unfortunately the article also portrays being a jock as being entirely negative, earning the article a POV tag per talk page consensus. Its unfortunate, the entire article reads like a "In Popular Culture" section. I'll do what I can, but at the moment the article is almost exclusively devoted to explaining how jocks are perceived in movies, books etc. I think that and article like Goth is a good guide to follow here. --Pstanton (talk) 03:42, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Stalking had become a mess, with the addition of tendentious material and general cruft including a huge "popular culture" section and at least one example of deliberate misinformation. I've hacked away at it, and tried to get some semblance of a decent article out of it. Two sections of the article are still mere lists, once completely unreferenced. Could someone please review this article? -- The Anome (talk) 12:39, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
  • Babywise (HELP WANTED!!! This article was originally posted by bias critics of the book On Becoming Babywise and needs non-bias edits. By "bias critics" I mean that much of the contribution to this article has been done by a person who openly opposes "Babywise" and the authors of this book on blogs, forums, as well as the source cited as a "Major site critical of". I can identify this editor of more than half of the historical changes to this article from the same IP addresses as were found in comments this person left on my personal blog within hours of editing this article. This same person is a moderator of the forum linking in the article as "Ezzo Parenting Discussions". The bias nature of the article can easily be seen in the fact that no official source for "Babywise" or the author was added to this article in the first five months of its existence even though sources to sites critical of the book were added from the IP address of the person mentioned above. I am personally bias in favor of the subject of this article.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by TheOzz (talk • contribs)

[edit] Tools

Sociology
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 1 2 4
Featured list FL 2 2
A-Class article A 1 1 2
Good article GA 1 6 2 5 3 17
B 15 56 56 10 15 152
C 4 15 22 5 13 59
Start 17 138 252 51 65 523
Stub 9 55 162 76 62 364
List 3 1 1 9 14
Assessed 47 274 498 149 169 1137
Unassessed 2 348 350
Total 47 276 498 149 517 1487


edit · history · watch · refresh  To-do list for WikiProject Sociology:
  1. Recruit project members
  2. Identify weaknesses in topic
  3. Brainstorm strategies for improvement

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