I propose to approach economic sociology as the application of social stratification, organizational theory, and the sociology of development to the study of the organization of economic activity. I begin by reviewing the growth of specialty fields in sociology during the postwar period. I then outline the origins and major tenets of a comparative economic sociology that breaks with specializat...

in this paper, the writer explores the effects of the developments in the conceptual atmosphere of the terms politics and power from modern to postmodern eras on the comparative political sociology. to do so, the writer first discusses how the denotations and the conceptual atmosphere governing the terms under study have changed. the discussion shows that in line with politicization of non-poli...

mainstream sociology under positivism has sought to provide universal theory, in one hand, and the historiography has attempted to narrative description of events, in the other hand. pathological studies show that both are suffering from extremism; so that mainstream sociology have neglected to study of special affairs and historiography  has not been able to build and provide theoretical gener...

Despite the size and growth of political science and sociology relative to other disciplines, political science and sociology graduate students have received a declining share of funding for dissertation field research in recent years. Specifically, political science and sociology students are losing out to competitive applicants from humanities-oriented fields that provide strong training in a...

sor of Sociology in the Graduate School of Business and the Department of Sociology, as well as Director of the Center for Health Administration Studies at the University of Chicago. His current major interest is comparative health systems is explored in Health Care: Can There Be Equity? The United States, Sweden, and England. ABSTRACT: A review of the emerging literature on crossnational healt...

Interpretation is a critical dimension of historical research. Though we can never really know how historical subjects understood their situation, their actions, or the actions of others, we continually strive to do so. The work is difficult and complex. It demands careful attention to detail and an immersion in large quantities of primary source material. It is also the part of our work which ...