The Sarbanes-Oxley Act represented a major legislative action designed to increase transparency and accountability in U.S. corporations. Within the context of agency theory and corporate governance, the expectation is that the enactment of Sarbanes-Oxley impacted the agency relationship of firms and hence affected the corporate governance structure. With these changes, the question arises as to...

In this article, we utilise the social dynamics of concussion in professional wrestling to examine and critique calls for cultural change as a solution crisis sport. Drawing on interview data from wrestlers, promoters, referees healthcare providers UK wrestling, illustrate experiences, attitudes subcultural norms exhibited relation concussion. Despite increasing concerns that brain injuries pre...

Research shows that structure and agency are components of both micro macro articulations identity (Bucholtz Hall, 2005). However, some scholars (e.g., Block 2013, 2015; Sealey Carter 2004; Gao 2017) argue often receive unequal attention, with many studies focusing more on when examining work. This paper attempts to rectify this imbalance by adopting a chronotopic approach examine quantitative ...

agency biological determinism biomedicine/biomedical model Cartesian dualism class (or social class) epidemiology/social epidemiology eugenics lifestyle choices/factors new public health public health/public health infrastructure reductionism social construction/ constructionism social Darwinism social institutions social model of health social structure sociological imagination state structure...