The past year has seen an almost textbook case of thc dangers of trumpeting developments in basic science to the mass media: the case involved a distinguished US scientist, a young M D P h D graduate student, an affiliated hospital of a major university, numerous biopharmaceutical companies, an agency of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the pandemic of acquired immune deficiency synd...

Anne Grinyer is a lecturer in the Institute for Health Research and in the School of Independent Studies at Lancaster University. She is a sociologist of health and illness and has a special interest in the construction of scientific and medical knowledge, the management of health risks and in qualitative research methods. She has recently written a book on young adults with cancer based on nar...

This historic-sociologic study aims to analyse the challenges faced by the Brazilian Expeditionary Force's Air Transportation Nurses of the Army with the Theatre of Operations on the course of World War II. The primary source was comprised of a photograph from this time period and oral testimonies of those who participated in the conflict. Ideas by sociologist Pierre Bourdieu support the discus...

In his Théorie de l’information et perception esthétique (1958), the sociologist of culture Abraham Moles (1920–92) set out to demonstrate applicability information theory—a mathematical linchpin cybernetics—to arts more generally. drew on classical psychophysics, Gestalt psychology, modern behavioral and contemporary psychoacoustic research advocate a cybernetic model creation art. repeatedly ...

This is a translation of the article “Nationalism, Modernization and Polylogue Civilizations” by Lithuanian sociologist Vytautas Kavolis. The original was published in English 1991 Comparative Civilizations Review, appeared 1992 journal Proskyna (translated Saulius Spurga). In this Kavolis discusses complex relationship nationalism cultural configurations modernity, postmodernity antimodernist ...

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George Ritzer, a sociologist at the University of Maryland, has proposed an influential thesis that suggests that many aspects of the fast food industry are making their way into other areas of society. This article explores whether his thesis, known as the McDonaldization thesis, is applicable to academic libraries. Specifically, it seeks to determine to what extent academic libraries may be c...

A growing number of social scientists fear that marriage may be on the rocks and few doubt that matrimony, as we have known it, has undergone a wrenching period of change in the past several decades. Andrew Cherlin, a leading sociologist of the family, speaks of "the de-institutionalization of marriage," conceding a point to conservative commentators who have argued that marriage and the family...

Goffman, a Canadian sociologist born to Ukrainian immigrants, studied chemistry at the University of Manitoba before moving to the University of Chicago to continue in sociology. He became an expert on human interaction and is considered one of the most influential sociologists of the 20th century. The micro-interactions between patients and staff were a focal point of the book, which illuminat...