It is perhaps no accident that Professor Wilson and I find ourselves in disagreement. He is a sociologist; I am a political scientist. Compared to economics, these disciplines have had less to say about poverty until recently. Out of ignorance, or naivetC, we may be surer of our theories and readier to defend them than the practitioners of the dismal science. Perhaps in another twenty years, we...

This paper introduces the critical social theory of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. The objective of Bourdieu’s theoretical framework is to uncover the buried organizational structures and mechanisms that are used to ensure the reproduction of social order. This theoretical framework will be used in a research program that examines the structural processes by which information technology ma...

Welcome to MedieKultur! This special issue is dedicated to the media theory of German sociologist and systems theorist Niklas Luhmann. We begin this introduction with an overview of his theory and end it with a brief presentation of the articles included in this issue, which utilise the theory in many different ways, and try to use it to conceptualise and understand many different phenomena, fr...

Since the epochal work of Itard at the beginning of the nineteenth century the training of the feebleminded, apart from their mere custodial care, has been a concern of psychologist, physician, educator and sociologist alike. Numerous schools have been established by the state for such training throughout the country, but everyone at all acquainted with this problem knows that there are not nea...

Nothing is less logical than to try to be too logical: nothing is more imprudent than to try to maintain theories ... if they are going to upset the order of society ... the sociologist must observe still greater circumspection, for if he puts into operation innovations of an upsetting nature he will simply succeed in demonstrating the uselessness and inefficiency of his science (Lombroso, cite...

This article takes its point of departure from the intellectual milieu in the mid-1980s that gave rise to Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot’s book, On Justification: Economies of Worth. It shows how exposure to ideas and concepts in that book came to take varied forms as they were elaborated and modified in the work of an American sociologist across several decades of research in diverse empir...

It is not only the difference and method of sociology's own object that distinguishes sociology as a science from other sciences related to human society. At same time, it handling social events phenomena in mental framework we call "sociological thinking". Sociological thinking differentiates sociologist random with its multiple features such multi-cause, holism, interdisciplinarity, self-refl...

Growing number of scholars in sociology has come to terms that sociology, like everything else, is a product of particular historical conditions. As there is sociology of everything. You can turn on your sociological eye no matter where you are or what you are doing, taking for example, the latent reasoning usually adopted by sociologist in viewing issues as against some others who ignorantly e...

Observations are drawn from field experience to explicate the role of the medical sociologist within geriatric clinical practice—a case presentation of a sociology "with" medicine. A sociology "with" medicine is presented as promoting the institutionalization of medical sociology as a special field within, yet independent of, medicine. The aim is to promote initiatives which generate and lest s...

Delphine Gardey offers an original and ambitious work which aims, according to the translation of its title in French, produce a “political history clitoris”. Historian sociologist, professor at Institute Gender Studies University Geneva, she is specialist thought Judith Butler, but also well known for her on gender, technology science, including psychoanalysis.