s of papers relating to these issues are invited for consideration for the conferenceand should be sent to Andrew Sayer at the address below by the extended deadline of1 March 2005 Conference organiser: Andrew Sayer, Professor of Social Theory and Political Economy,Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, LA1 4YD, U.K. [email protected] Conference secretary: Pennie Drink...

PITCHAIMANI GOVINDHARAJ*, JOYDEEPA DARLONG**, ANNAMMA S JOHN*** & SURESH MANI**** *Research Scholar, Department of Sociology, Bharathidasan University, Tamilnadu, India **Deputy Superintendent, The Leprosy Mission Hospital, P.O Box-09, P.S & D.t-Purulia, West Bengal, Pin: 723 101, India ***Head – Research & Training, The Leprosy Mission Trust India, New Delhi, India ****Research Scholar, Univer...

Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011; Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011; Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011; Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011; Department of Sociology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011; National Laborato...

Dale E. Yeatts, Major Professor Rudy Ray Seward, Minor Professor Cynthia M. Cready, Committee Member George A. Yancey, Committee Member Sandra L. Terrell, Interim Chair of the Department of Sociology Thomas L. Evenson, Dean of the College of Public Affairs and Community Service Michael Monticino, Dean of the Robert B. Toulouse School of Graduate Studies GEOGRAPHIC DISTANCE, CONTACT, AND FAMILY ...

The aim of this article is to re-inspect the possibility or repudiation of Sociology of Religion. This idea is done by researching the previous critiques of this branch of sociology and the criticism of these challenges. In the following discussion about each of aspects, it is tried to answer the extant uncertainties according to one of the most important expositors (H. A. Tanhaee).

The programme of analytical sociology brings sharp focus to fundamental issues insociology as a scientific discipline. Its practitioners offer a clear paradigm of how sociologicalexplanations ought to proceed, from individual actors to social outcomes. This essay considerslimitations of the approach as a general framework for all sociological research, however. Theessay surveys ...

Department of Risk Management and Insurance and Center for the Economic Analysis of Risk, Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA; School of Economics, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; School of Sociology and Philosophy, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland; Center for Economic Analysis of Risk, Robinson College of Business, Georgia State Universi...

1 Centre for Research on Inner City Health, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 2 Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 3 Department of Population and Family Health Sciences, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. 4 Department of Behavioral and Community Health Services, Grad...