Joining the Professional Sociological Community

Sociological & Social Science Associations Annual Conferences (selected):

  • American Sociological Association [ASA]                        
  • 117th ASA Annual Meeting August 5-9, 2022, in Los Angeles, CA
  • http://www.asanet.org/
  • Society for the Study of Social Problems [SSSP]
  • Western Social Science Association [WSSA]
    • 2022 Denver CO March 30, 2022 through April 2, 2022 Hilton Denver City Center
    • 2023 Tempe, AZ April 12, 2023 through April 15, 2023 Tempe Mission Palms
    • http://www.wssaweb.com/
  • Southwestern Social Science Association (SSSA)
  • Association of Black Sociologists [ABS]
  • Pacific Sociological Association [PSA]
  • Sociologists for Women in Society [SWS]
  • Midwestern Sociological Society [MSS]

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Sociology is is a broad science, covering many different disciplines the social sciences. Sociology is the study of group life. As a social science, it combines scientific and humanistic perspectives in the study of urban, and rural life, family patterns and relationships, social change, social policy, intergroup relations, social class, environment, technology and communications, health care and illness, social movements, community responses to disasters, and many other social issues.

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