The needs of people with Parkinson's disease (PD) go beyond the purely medical domain and often require collaborative management. A Panel Discussion at the "Hither neurology" Symposium included neurologists, a speech therapist, a geriatrician and a sociologist. Their discussion highlighted certain aspects of the disability and disadvantage associated with PD. The starting point was a video reco...

Less than 15% of the complaints made to the General Medical Council reach the preliminary screening committee. Yet this committee is the first stage in the disciplinary process when real power can be exercised over the offending doctor. The diversion of so many complaints worries critics of the GMC.' The council argues that so many cases are diverted because they do not raise a question of seri...

The basic level is the level of conceptual structure at which categories are maximally informative. In this research, we investigated whether the privileged status of the basic level might be captured by the statistical properties of the Web. Using Google’s Web search programming interface, we found that frequency ratios for terms across three levels of abstraction (superordinate, basic, and su...

The sociologist Ray Oldenburg coined the term ‘third place’ or ‘great good places’ to describe the public spaces used for informal social interaction outside of the home and workplace. Oldenburg’s conceptualization has been used consistently to describe the communication of computer-mediated contexts such as chatrooms and multiuser environments. This analysis examines the accuracy, utility and ...

Scientometrics is the field of quantitative studies of scholarly activity. It has been used for systematic studies of the fundamentals of scholarly practice as well as for evaluation purposes. Although advocated from the very beginning the use of scientometrics as an additional method for science history is still under explored. In this paper we show how a scientometric analysis can be used to ...

The article investigates the relationship between part of theoretical work and professional trajectory sociologist Octavio Ianni, especially in 1970s, particular, radicalization his interpretations after 1964 coup, hardening Dictatorship 1968, cancellation right to teach, 1969. Mainly through interviews, we sought investigate specifics certain divergences inside Cebrap, particularly Fernando He...

red-making for tender trainees. But psychiatry without scientific toughness lapses quickly into jargon and belief. Compared to the Lewis-Shepherd system ofclean and logical questioning, the harangues of anti-psychiatrists (whether dressed up as politicians, sociologists, historians or special interest groups) are messily bewildering and often trample tender buds. Certainly this volume is aimed ...

The terms “information age” and “information society” are used by many writers as shorthand to refer to the confluence of an incalculable number of contemporary social and structural transformations. A sizeable chunk of these events have been described and analyzed by Manuel Castells in The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture. Castells is professor of city and regional planning and p...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of the interactive and diagnostic use of management control systems on the adoption and success of contemporary management accounting practices in the public sector. Contemporary management accounting practices includes: benchmarking, activity-based costing, the balanced scorecard, value chain analysis, total quality management, key perform...

In this article originally published in 2005 The American Sociologist, Michael Burawoy proposes a 30-year self-analysis of his supervising practice at UC Berkeley. Highlighting the power imbalance structuring relationship between supervisor and supervisee, unveils paths for sociology sociological supervising, opening black box interactions, rites interests surroun- ding production dissertation ...