Background.The analysis of past research shows that the study of mental illness was part of the agenda of the founders of the discipline of sociology. Additionally, the sociological study of mental illness changes to reflect the mark of historical periods such as premodernity, modernity and postmodernity.Aim.The aim of this study is to compare and contrast some modern sociological theories of m...

modernity is a reality that formed in framework of the enlightenment movement and histo-cultural context of west european countries as an internal process. because of the disseminating nature of modernity, its waves spread across the non-western countries. this article focuses on the outcomes of imported modernity in intellectual level of the non-western countries. for analyzing this topic, rus...

zeinab fatemi amin phd student (economic sociology and development) majid fouladiyan phd student (theoretical cultural sociology) the main issue in this paper is two-way causal relationship between educational efficiency in any country and the development in society; it means while education in any society is affected by different levels of development, also as a independent variable influences...

This article is a literature review that comparatively examines publications and research conducted about the teaching of sociology in higher education. English, Turkish, to some extent French academic journals sources were surveyed, articles education different countries compiled. Thereby, possibilities features field which can be called “studies on sociology” discussed assessed within context...

This essay asks two related questions about the discipline of sociology in the United States during the middle decades of the twentieth century. The first of these questions is historical and comparative, and relates to the dominant epistemological orientation in U.S. sociology in the two decades after World War II. What accounts for the postwar narrowing of sociology’s epistemological and meth...

Contrary to current tendencies, the founders of sociology as a discipline regarded the sociology of law as an integral part of social theory. Law and its historical variations were treated by them as constitutive components of social life. This can be demonstrated especially with regard to Émile Durkheim and Max Weber. It also provides an opportunity to highlight the diVerences between these au...

Edward Westermarck (1862-1939) taught sociology and moral philosophy at the University of Helsinki; later, he taught sociology at the University of London. He initially sought graduate work in moral philosophy but quickly concluded that normative ethics must be based on empirical behavior and so turned to field work. As a pioneer in anthropological field work, he championed a comparative method...

618 JEFFERY P. DENNIS received a master’s degree from Indiana University and taught English and comparative literature in California and Tennessee prior to returning to graduate school. He is currently completing a doctorate in sociology at the State University of New York–Stony Brook, writing his dissertation on communities of desire in the postmodern city. “What is required is a new framework...