In contrast to the antistructuralist and antipositivist agenda that has animated the “narrative turn” in the social sciences since the 1980s, a more uniquely sociological approach has studied stories in the interactional, institutional, and political contexts of their telling. Scholars working in this vein have seen narrative as powerful, but as variably so, and they have focused on the ways in...

Visualizing data is central to social scientific work. Despite a promising early beginning, sociology has lagged in the use of visual tools. We review the history and current state of visualization in sociology. Using examples throughout, we discuss recent developments in ways of seeing raw data and presenting the results of statistical modeling. We make a general distinction between those meth...

The study of mass communications is a broad, multidisciplinary field to which sociology has made major contributions. Some of these contributions have been reviewed in earlier works by Riley & Riley (1959), Larsen (1964), Janowitz (1968), McQuail (1969), Davison & Yu (1974), & Ball-Rokeach (1975), and Wright (1975a). Several chapters in Annual Review of Psychology, although not explicitly socio...

s and Ap r i l 1 1 , 2 0 1 4 ~ M i s s o u l a , Mo nt a n a U n d e r g r a d u a t e R e s e a r c h C o m m i t t e e : James McKusick (chair), Davidson Honors College Susanne Bradford, Applied Arts & Sciences Abhishek Chatterjee, Political Science Dan Doyle, Sociology Julie Edwards, Mansfield Library Amy Glaspey, Communicative Sciences & Disorders John Glendening, English Andrew Larson, For...

1. The Scope of the Field: Addictive and Non-Addictive Substances 2. History of the Field 3. Theoretical Perspectives and Research Methods in the Sociology of Addiction 4. Studies of Careers in Drug and Alcohol Use and Abuse 5. Studies of the effects of substance use and abuse on relationships and of relationships on substance use and abuse 6. Studies of Drug and Alcohol Subcultures and Specifi...

As a designated field of inquiry, economic sociology is not much more than a century old, even though its intellectual roots are identifiable in older traditions of philosophical and social thought. During the past quarter-century it has experienced an explosive growth, and now stands as one of the most conspicuous and vital subfields of its parent discipline. In this introduction we first defi...

Social scientists have drawn attention to the role of hype and optimistic visions of the future in providing momentum to biomedical innovation projects by encouraging innovation alliances. In this article, we show how less optimistic, uncertain, and modest visions of the future can also provide innovation projects with momentum. Scholars have highlighted the need for clinicians to carefully man...

Most serious efforts aimed at linking social and behavioral sciences knowledge to medical practice have included "models" which integrate social and behavioral science concepts. We argue that such an integration is intellectually problematic due to an important analytic distinction between "social" sciences and "psychological" sciences. If the social explanation of illness is to become useful i...