Anna-Lena Almqvist, School of Health, Care and Social Welfare, Mälardalen University. Data drawn from Welfare and Solidarity in Postindustrial Europe study managed from the Department of Sociology, Umeå University, Sweden; Department of Social Sciences, Roskilde University, Denmark and Department of Sociology, Copenhagen University, Denmark. Financial support for the study received from the Swe...

While the notion of the crowd played a central role in the late 19th century sociology, today it is almost forgotten. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that it may be fruitful once again to take seriously the figure of the crowd. The paper in particular discusses the potential of the crowd tradition for economic sociology. The relationship between crowd and economic life is examined from ...

We argue for a sociology of health, illness, and disease. Under the influence of Talcott Parsons, the social study of health began as medical sociology and then morphed into sociology of health and illness, focusing largely on the social aspects of health-related topics. Social scientists have been reluctant to tackle disease in its physiological and biological manifestations. The result is an ...

To be rational means to be able to reason. Thirty years ago psychologists believed that human reasoning is depending on formal rules of inference akin to those of the logical calculus. This hypothesis ran into difficulties, which led to creating more categories of reasoning. They are trying to describe human reasoning with all pros and cons and to simulate reasoning of human mind. We will descr...

Potato waffles and baked beans for breakfast. A touch of salt and vinegar and I have a real treat on my hands., A slightly unusual breakfast, some might say, but then again, sometimes unusual is better than usual. Hmmmm ... Delicious! Four minutes later, no more waffles. It's as though they have disappeared. Born out of the freezer, they spent their short lives in my toaster. Both of them. I wo...

Purpose This study aims to understand whether and how the use of performance measures in context healthcare organizations facilitates dynamics compromise or it creates moral struggles among a wide variety actors. It offers novel insights into concept hybridity by investigating its underlying dimension. Drawing upon sociology worth theory (Boltanski Thévenot, 1991, 2006), this paper examines act...