Development sociology as a distinct area of study gained prominence in the post-world war era with the evolving interest in political and economic progression of the post-colonial world. The emerging discipline from the mainstream sociology have been particularly interested in development paths and strategies adopted in nations in the various regions of the world with greater emphasis in develo...

This issue features a critique by Stephen P. Turner of an important paper by Robert Marsh on Weber’s analysis of the Chinese legal system. Turner’s critique is followed by a response from Robert Marsh. Then we have an article by a young scholar, François Dépelteau, about the sociological imagination. We have also listed all of the books submitted for the Barrington Moore Award since they consti...

Growing number of scholars in sociology has come to terms that sociology, like everything else, is a product of particular historical conditions. As there is sociology of everything. You can turn on your sociological eye no matter where you are or what you are doing, taking for example, the latent reasoning usually adopted by sociologist in viewing issues as against some others who ignorantly e...

The article analyses the development of an expertise on sociology profession in Brazil. It argues that Sociology Professions and Occupations did not consolidated itself as a delimited field relation to other expertises. There are overlappings among subareas knowledge blurring boundaries with studies work, social stratification, science sociological theory. To focus this process, research is bas...

Previous Professor, Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University, 1993-2002. Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1990-1993. Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, 1985-1990. Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1980-1985.

Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) are associated with increased risk cardiovascular disease. Neighbourhood characteristics may provide critical insight into how social and structural determinants health impact an individual’s for these conditions. We estimated annual prevalence any HDP, preeclampsia, gestational hypertension (GH) in adults discharged from Ontario hospital obstetrical de...

neural nets: Tissue P systems. In Proceedings of COCOON 2002, Singapore, LNCS 2387, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 290–299. 15. M. Oswald. Independent agents in a globalized world modelled by tissue P systems. Conf. Artificial Life and Robotics, 2006. 16. Gh. Păun. Computing with Membranes. Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 61:108–143, 2000. See also Turku Centre for Computer Science — TUCS Re...

The greenhouse (GH) effect has emerged as a major factor in changing cropping patterns and limiting crop yields. This study was conducted to determine the comparative growth and photosynthetic responses of selected heat-resistant (cv. Sadaf) and heat-susceptible (cv. Agatti-2002) cultivars of maize to simulated GH conditions during spring and autumn seasons at seedling, silking and grain fi lli...

this article tries to familiarize the reader with those minor areas of sociology that have many capabilities for reading research issues by studying the historical movement and philosophical fields of shaping historical sociology. the article also explains the reasons of obsoleteness of this effective method of recognizing and defining the domination of quantitative strategies over sociology by...