The programme of analytical sociology brings sharp focus to fundamental issues insociology as a scientific discipline. Its practitioners offer a clear paradigm of how sociologicalexplanations ought to proceed, from individual actors to social outcomes. This essay considerslimitations of the approach as a general framework for all sociological research, however. Theessay surveys ...

This text covers the professional and scientific career of Maria Cecilia Ferro Donnangelo, professor, researcher and influential intellectual in the area of Collective Health. Born in 1940, and killed in a car accident in 1983, she actively participated in the emergence of Collective Health in Brazil and greatly influenced the creation of the sub-areas of Social Science and the Humanities in th...

lnterpretivist movements in anthropology and sociology have recently merged with neo-Marxist and feminist theory to produce a unique genre of research in the field of education known as "critical ethnography." Critical ethnographers seek research accounts sensitive to the dialectical relationship between the social structural constraints on human actors and the relative autonomy of human agency...

In this article, we review research on the economics and sociology of education to assess the relationships between family and community variables and children’s educational outcomes in South Asia. At the family level, we examine the variables of family socioeconomic status (SES), parental education, family structure, and religion and caste. At the community level, we assess the limited researc...

Thi r tytwo faculty members will present the courses of instruction in education and arts. Thir teen visiting instructors will serve on the summer session faculty. They will include: Dr. Joseph Kirk Folsom. professor of economics and sociology, a t Vassar, Professor Arlie E. McGulre, head of the depar tment of j education at the Concord Sta le normal school, Athens, West Virginia, Donald M. Tow...

‘Global citizenship’ has gained traction as a policy objective across school systems in recent decades. It been defined education for the development of sense cosmopolitan moral virtue, planetary identification and ‘global competencies’. In this paper, I argue that historical sociology can help explain why goal prominence citizenship since late twentieth century. Focussing on Australian case, p...