Sociology and Social Work

SOCIOLOGY IN SWITZERLAND Sociology of Work and Organization Organizations as Social Actors

SOCIOLOGY IN SWITZERLAND Sociology of Work and Organization The three-dimensional Evolution of Human Work: Some Methodological Consequences for Social and Historical Research

The threefold evolutions of human work in the technological, social and cybernetic dimensions all contribute to the same two major epistemological and methodological consequences: 1) First Order problems result from the increasing difficulty of interpreting any historical remains and data (artifacts, texts, figures, pictures, videos, software programs and everything else), because ever more con...

The Sociology of Social Inclusion

This article looks at social inclusion from a sociological perspective. It argues that sociology complements biological and other natural order explanations of social stratification. The article interrogates a variety of forms of social integration, including ostracism within 5th century B.C. Greece, 19th-century solidarism, and Goffman’s mid-20th-century work on stigma. It does so to demonstra...

A glossary for the social epidemiology of work organisation: part 2 Terms from the sociology of work and organisations.

Sociology and Non-Equilibrium Social Science

This chapter addresses the relationship between sociology and NonEquilibrium Social Science (NESS). Sociology is a multiparadigmatic discipline with significant disagreement regarding its goals and status as a scientific discipline. Different theories and methods coexist temporally and geographically. However, it has always aimed at identifying the main factors that explain the temporal stabili...