Starting from a paper about closing the gap between sociology and medicine in Brazil and the United Kingdom that was published in 1971, a historical update was made with the aim of reflecting on the new shapes of health-related teaching and research within the social and human sciences, in these two countries. The methodology was qualitative and the study was developed using secondary data. The...

scientific communications network is presented in, sociology of science. and we can use steven's evaluative bibliometrics to map it. in citation network approach, scientist's communication behavior is predicted through their citation behavior. in this paper, first, concepts such as sociology of science, scientific community, scientific communications and its kinds are described. two k...

Technological innovation is a phenomenon that has been explored from a variety of perspectives, most prominently from the perspective of economics. Recently scholars from organizational and economic sociology have begun to explore innovation. In your view, does this research offer a coherent perspective on innovation? Of what value is an organizational and economic sociology perspective on inno...

This paper discusses the aims and format of an introductory course in clinical sociology . It reviews the process of teaching clinical sociology as a profession and teaching the theoretical basis that distinguishes the field. Case studies, guest practitioners, and practical exercises are used to prompt an application and integration of the acquired knowledge. Ideally, the course reviewed here c...

Max Weber and Georg Simmel are considered as ideal-typical founders of sociology. Whereas Simmel pleaded for a large conception of sociology, which would include the epistemological and metaphysical issues as well, Max Weber explicitly excluded philosophical questions from the domain of sociology. A philosophical reading of Max Weber’s sociology, which uncovers his philosophy in the margins of ...

This study aimed to highlight, illustrate, describe, and comment on the presence of the health category in the work of Pierre Bourdieu, by underlining the themes traditionally related to the sociology of the body. After a systematic analysis of his work in the sociology of medicine and health, the article also addresses the main vehicle for his line of thought, namely Actes de la Recherche en S...

In this article I explore a disposition towards critique of ‘reductionism’ and ‘determinism’ that seems to me be very much prevalent within British sociology. take qualitative educational sociology uses Bourdieusian concepts as one body research where is expressed with particular fervour. A close examination work reveals its tacit acceptance the limits specific, mostly statistical, classificati...

Scholars in the area of Evolutionary Sociology and Biosociology explicitly seek to examine the interplay of social and environmental factors with evolved biological factors and its implications for social behavior. It is a broad area covering a wide array of research topics and methodologies. Neurosociologists in the area describe the neural circuitry underlying social processes, such as empa-t...