Nutritional sociology uses sociological theories and methods to study and influence food patterns, eating habits, and nutrition. Obesity and weight loss are important topics in nutritional sociology, and stigmatization of the obese is a long-standing interest. Most past sociological work has only described stigmatization, rather than developing ways to facilitate coping with it. A model for cop...

This paper introduces a new direction in formalizing sociological models. Sociological theories are a field of application for computer science, hence sociologists describe a theory in informal ways. These theories are transformed into computational models which can be studied and investigated with formal methods. We have chosen to formalize a common model of sociological theory, the Garbage Ca...

This article examines intimacy from a sociological perspective. It reveals that 'over-involved' or 'intimate' nurse-patient relationships do not tend to be welcomed by nurses. The work of certain theorists is explored to provide a sociological explanation of intimate nurse-patient relationships and to highlight the complexities of nurses developing intimate relationships with patients in the wo...

Marital Coital Frequency and the Passage of Time: Estimating the Separate Effects of Spouses' Ages and Marital Duration, Birth and Marriage Cohorts, and Period Influences Author(s): Guillermina Jasso Source: American Sociological Review, Vol. 50, No. 2, (Apr., 1985), pp. 224-241 Published by: American Sociological Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2095411 Accessed: 07/06/2008 ...

the purpose of this article is to study the factors contributing to the political alienation of the students at shiraz university. to explain the concept of alienation, geyer’s theoretical framework in the social psychology was used. the statistical universe of the research consisted of 6822 persons, of which 400 were taken randomly, using couckran formula. the results show that the variables s...

the sociological criticism was established by george lukach in the beginning of 20th century and then lucien goldmann and mikhail bakhtine have developed it. in sociological criticism the content impact is on form and social situation impact on content. so, if we study the work we can find the idea of the writer or poet and we can use it as a historical document. adi ibn zayd was in the court o...

the sociology of law is concerned with explaining the relationship between law and society and studying of the social organization of law (as an order or a system), the social interactions of legal practitioners and people in this area and the meaning that people actually give to sociolegal realities. among the founding fathers of sociology, max weber is one of the most famous thinkers that eve...

bourdieu’s sociological theory contains all the elements necessary to form a political theory. through reviewing the works of bourdieu attempts have been made in the present paper to discuss those elements and also to reconstruct a political theory by combining them in a theoretical framework. this is a new attempt and has not been yet accomplished. therefore, in the present paper attempts have...