Welcome to the Free Online Sociology Dictionary

Not sure where to start? Try these definitions:

• bias
• class
• culture
• discrimination
• ethnocentrism
• group
• meritocracy
• norm
• poverty
• power
• prejudice
• privilege
• role
• sanction
• socialization
• society
• sociological imagination
• status
• stereotype
• value

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How to Cite The Dictionary

ASA – American Sociological Association (5th ed.) Bell, Kenton, ed. 2013. Open Education Sociology Dictionary. Retrieved July 10, 2024 (https://sociologydictionary.org/). MLA – Modern Language Association (7th ed.) Bell, Kenton, ed. Open Education Sociology Dictionary. 2013. Web. 10 Jul. 2024. <https://sociologydictionary.org/>. APA – American Psychological Association (6th ed.) Bell, K. (Ed.) (2013). Open education sociology dictionary. Retrieved from https://sociologydictionary.org/ Chicago/Turabian – Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.) Bell, Kenton, ed. 2013. Open Education Sociology Dictionary. Accessed July 10, 2024. https://sociologydictionary.org/.