Mr. President, colleagues and guests. I am honored and proud to present this year’s Southern Society of Clinical Investigation (SSCI) Founders’Medal to my longtime colleague and friend Monica Farley (Figure 1). For those in the audience who are having a feeling of déjà vu, I can reassure you that the feeling is correct in that I stood here last year and presented the Founders’ Medal to Dr. Jess...

1. Sociology's Relevance to International Relations 2. Historical Origins of Sociological Thought 3. Historical Sociology 4. The Historical Sociology of the State and International Relations 5. Principles of Historical Sociology 6. Problems with Historical Sociology 7. Sociology of Globalization 8. Global Versus Historical Sociology? 9. The Future Sociological Agenda in International Relations ...

Recent studies have been endeavoring to overcome challenges ensure reliable measurement results in Social Sciences and Humanities facing the complex characteristics of this scientific field. However, literature indicates that founding designers sociology as an academic discipline expressed concerns regarding social measurements more than a century ago. Based on review, present work investigates...

This issue of SER contains three articles on public sociology and economic sociology, which all have their origin in a session on this theme that was held at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in August 2006 in Montreal. The reason for organizing this session was a sense that ‘new economic sociology’ has ignored many of the issues that are associated with the term ‘publ...

Do all disciplines fret over the state of their own intellectual and policy-relevant health? Is it a symptom of our hyper-reflexive and confessional times that collective anxiety has to be rehearsed over the track record, and present and projected performance of a group of scholars? Medical sociology’s lengthy reflections on the state of its own practice are recognizable as part of a more gener...

here is an exclusive interview by negin iran quarterly with general hamid sarkheili who is one of the founders of irgc artillery unit. in the first years of the war, he had different posts and played an important role in training and repairing in this unit. in this interview, he has mentioned only a small part of what has done to form irgc artillery.