SOCIOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES

[Poverty and HIV/AIDS: anthropological and sociological aspects].

Focusing on the HIV/AIDS epidemic as a summation of several epidemics coexisting in the same space and drawing on Brazilian epidemiological data, we argue that the epidemic there shows variations already described elsewhere, such as feminization, pauperization, juvenization and interiorization, as a result of the deep inequalities characteristic of Brazilian society. We then examine the contrib...

Causal Inference in Sociological Studies

Sociological Studies and Philosophical Studies: Twenty Years of Controversy

Pickering (1992, p. 1) speaks of the field now commonly called sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) as "a new approach to thinking about science" that differentiated itself from contemporary philosophy and sociology of science in two ways: first, in that "scientific knowledge itself had to be understood as a social product"; and second, in that "SSK was determinedly empirical and naturalisti...

Anthropological studies of the disabled in Hungary

The number of disabled school children in Hungary is about 30-40 thousand per annum. This statistic is too high to be ignored. We are still collating the results of anthropological research on the disabled which has been completed or is still in progress in Hungary. Some of these studies also concern the subjects’ physique. Comparing the results with earlier studies, the secular trend can be sh...

Trends in Molecular Anthropological Studies in India

Indian population is characterized by wide diversity and unique population structure shaped by different waves of migration and the practice of caste endogamy. Anthropologists have been studying the peopling of India and the relationships between different populations using traditional genetic markers. With the advent of molecular genetic techniques the focus has turned to using the DNA polymor...