If I wanted to be controversial, as a sociologist, I might say that serial murder is “functional” for society. However, a less inflammatory way to say the same thing is that serial murder can be ...

This course reviews some of the most important developments in contemporary sociological theory. It examines work in such areas as relational sociology; rational-choice theory and ethnomethodology; ...

Vol. 38, No. 1, Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Émile Durkheim's "The Rules of Sociological Method" (Spring, 1995), pp. 77-105 (29 pages) Published By: Sage Publications, Inc. Durkheim has not ...