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| | Sociology FAQs |
 | | A short list would include such issues as popular culture, the uses of language, social institutions, bureaucracies, social deviance and crimes, human sexuality, class differences, racial and ethnic differences, gender differences, marriages and families, education, religion, economics and capitalism, types of political governments, social movements, population changes, and technology. |
 | | In fact, sociologists often deal with some of the most controversial issues in American society today, such as affirmative action, immigration, sexism, the "breakdown" of the family, welfare reform, inner-city crimes, and income inequality, to name just a few. |
 | | These applied sociologists try to apply their knowledge in a variety of ways and in a wide range of environments, in their attempts to directly address the issues that they've studied in the classroom. |
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