The urgent need to study museum visitors in Russia usually arose during periods of qualitative reforms the sphere, shortly after cardinal social changes. Such milestones were 1920s–1930s, 1960s–1970s, and 1990s–2000s. Research at this time had significant results. purpose is describe historical context explain activation audience analysis. novelty approach consists substantiating for sociologic...

This article explores the historical development of medical sociology and analyses the social problems that have had impacted the changes of health care institutionalization particularly in Lithuania during the Soviet and post-soviet period. Approaching the interaction between sociology and public health sciences, it is intended to apply the concept of medical sociology and its determinants in ...

In this paper we examine an organizational discourse on radical transformation by identifying and analyzing management narratives claiming to be representative of different organizational stakeholders. We do this from the perspective of Stakeholder Agency Theory (Hills and Jones 1996) and by employing analytical approaches typical of hermeneutics, historical analysis and the sociology of action...