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 ...

Aims/Objectives: In a climate of workforce transition, enhanced specialisation and role transfer, it is timely to address the impact of workforce flexibility on practitioners in non-specialist roles. This study aimed to use podiatry as a case exemplar (as one of the Allied Health Professions) to explore the possible impact of workforce redesign policies on role boundaries on generalist podiatri...