In the fall of 2004, the Program in Jewish Law and Interdisciplinary Studies of Cardozo School of Law organized an international conference on the competing claims to authority of text, tradition, and reason in both law and religion. The conference was predicated on the view that legal and religious traditions share a common interpretive structure and face common dilemmas over how to integrate ...

This essay argues that the concept of professionalism as it appears in health law is undergoing transformation as the applicable common law doctrines are increasingly being superseded by statutes and regulations. The doctor-patient relationship is being subjected to new rules of conduct intended to affirm the rights not only of patients but also of society at large. The bilateral relationship b...

This issue of SER contains three articles on public sociology and economic sociology, which all have their origin in a session on this theme that was held at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in August 2006 in Montreal. The reason for organizing this session was a sense that ‘new economic sociology’ has ignored many of the issues that are associated with the term ‘publ...

Do all disciplines fret over the state of their own intellectual and policy-relevant health? Is it a symptom of our hyper-reflexive and confessional times that collective anxiety has to be rehearsed over the track record, and present and projected performance of a group of scholars? Medical sociology’s lengthy reflections on the state of its own practice are recognizable as part of a more gener...

In this paper we discuss the shift from a legal to an interactionist view on normative multiagent systems, examples, and ten new challenges in this more dynamic setting. 1 Towards a more dynamic interactionist view Traditionally normative systems have been studied in philosophy, sociology, law, and ethics, and during the past two decades they have been studied in deontic logic in computer scien...

The objective of this research primary describes the trend analysis of international periodicals and literatures which titles as well-known “Social Capital” at SSCI database from 1956 to 2008. The result of this paper inferred that the literature production on social capital has reached highly growth in the last 10 years. The distribution of author productivity does not follow by Lotka’s Law. T...

Lifelogging, a technique for digitally gathering every moment in life using wearable cameras, is a growing phenomenon. However, it is important to remember that in addition to recording their own lives, users are recording others as well, which raises privacy issues around lifelogging from a bystander’s perspective. This warrants conducting bystander-focused privacy studies in an uncontrolled e...

Irwin Altman’s popular theory of privacy as a normalizing, dynamic, dialectic process regulating self-environment interactions is integrated with observations and conceptions of privacy drawn from ubicomp, law, architecture, sociology, and psychology. The result is a unified, holistic and comprehensive vocabulary for discussing privacy issues in the design of ubicomp systems, specifically ubiqu...

The healthcare regulatory concepts used in Brazilian scientific publications on healthcare management were reviewed. A typo-logical classification for regulatory concepts was developed from the most current ideas in five disciplines: life sciences, law, economics, sociology and political science. Four ideas stood out: control, balance, adaptation and direction, with greatest emphasis on the tec...