Observations are drawn from field experience to explicate the role of the medical sociologist within geriatric clinical practice—a case presentation of a sociology "with" medicine. A sociology "with" medicine is presented as promoting the institutionalization of medical sociology as a special field within, yet independent of, medicine. The aim is to promote initiatives which generate and lest s...

In this article I explore the relationships between commercial gambling and late capitalism. In particular, I am interested in the societal forces that produce gambling as a contemporary form of consumption,which I define as the state-sanctioned commodification of chance.As a theoretical entry point, I employ the typology of games devised by French sociologist Roger Caillois in his 1961 volume ...

These are times that trouble the soul. American sociologist, pragmatist, and race historian, W.E.B. Du Bois can be helpful in examining resolving some of racial political tensions United States. After lynching sixty-two African Americans Atlanta 1906, wrote a year later problem nineteenth century is color line. An examination his’ theory same way as history instructive. Black intertwined ...

In this article I discuss Burawoy’s (2005) argument for public sociology in the context of the sociologist as both citizen and as social scientist; that is, as simultaneously a member of any ‘society’ being researched and as researcher claiming validity for the knowledge produced by research. I shall suggest that the relation between citizenship and social science necessarily places a limit on ...

S capital has gained wide acceptability as a fruitful theoretical perspective for understanding and predicting the norms and social relations embedded in the social structures of societies. It is these patterns of social interrelationships that enable people to coordinate action to achieve desired goals (Putnam, 1993). Bourdieu, a French sociologist, was one of the first authors to analyze syst...

This paper presents the Unoporuno system: an application of natural language processing methods to the sociology of migration. Our approach extracts names of people from a scientific publications database, refines Web search queries using bibliographical data and decides of the international mobility category of a person according to the location analysis of those snippets classified as mobilit...

In this wide-ranging interview Priscilla Alderson discusses how she came to research parental and childhood consent became a sociologist how, late in her career, convenor of the critical realism group started by Roy Bhaskar at Institute for Education London. She aspects seminal over years on multiple subjects, such as rights children, reflects what has added social research.

This article is devoted to the work of American scientist Harry Braverman. The relevance due, firstly, transformation system social stratification occurring in society middle twentieth century, as well search for relevant approaches its study. Secondly, fact that Russian sociology does not pay enough attention Braverman’s unique contribution development theory structure, his active participatio...

Affixation is one of the most common and productive ways to form new words in English and forming words through suffix, an affix that is placed after a base, and is a significant component of affixation. Although numerous studies on common suffixes have been conducted, relatively little attention has been paid to the seemingly less used affixes, say the suffix –esque. A thorough analysis is con...

A BOOK on utopias by a Marxist sociologist seems promising, perhaps even courageous. In Envisioning Real Utopias, Erik Olin Wright seeks to counter widespread cynicism about radical social transformation. To do this he offers what he calls “real utopias,” which might appear a contradiction or oxymoron. For Wright, however, utopias are not fantasies, or not only fantasies. In the current period ...