- sacrifice
- sample
- sanction (social sanction)
- Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
- scapegoat theory
- scientific method
- Second World
- secondary aging
- secondary deviance
- secondary group
- sect
- segregation
- self
- self-fulfilling prophecy
- self-redress
- self-report study
- semantics
- semi-peripheral nations
- senescence
- serial monogamy
- service
- service (services)
- sex
- sex ratio
- sexism
- sexual discrimination
- sexual harassment
- sexual orientation
- sexuality
- shaken-baby syndrome
- shaman
- sick role
- singlehood
- sizism
- slash-and-burn
- social acceptance
- social action
- social change
- social class
- social construction of race
- social constructionism
- social control
- social determinism
- social fact
- social gerontology
- social integration
- social mobility
- social movement
- social movement industry
- social movement organization
- social movement sector
- social movement theory
- social network
- social network analysis
- social order
- social placement
- social reductionism
- social science
- social situation
- social solidarity
- social statistics
- social stratification
- socialism
- socialization
- socialized medicine
- society
- sociobiology
- sociolinguistics
- sociological imagination
- sociology
- sociometry
- solidarity (social solidarity)
- sorcery
- sorting
- source data
- speech
- spirit possession
- spouse
- standard
- standard of living
- state
- state autonomy
- state capitalism
- state socialism
- stateless society
- statistic
- statistical analysis
- statistical independence
- statistical inference
- statistics
- status (social status)
- status consistency
- status declassing
- status lender
- status offense
- status quo
- status symbol
- stereotype
- stereotype interchangeability
- stigma
- stigmatization
- stockbroker belt
- stratification (social stratification)
- stratified society
- street crime
- structural mobility
- structural unemployment
- study
- subculture
- subgroup
- subject
- subjective poverty
- subjectivity
- subordinate group
- subsistence economy
- subsistence farming
- subsistence strategy
- substantive hypothesis
- suburb
- succession
- sufficient condition
- suicide
- supernatural
- support
- supranational
- survey (social survey)
- symbol
- symbolic interactionism
- syntax
- systematic