Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Department of Psychology, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and Department of Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138; and Department of Health Care Policy and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115. D.G.R. and S.A. contributed equally to this work. To whom correspondence should be addressed: E-mail: [email protected]...

1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany 2Medical Clinic and Policlinic 3, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany 3Institute of Medical Psychology and Sociology, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany 4Institute of Music Science, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen...

This book aims to enrich current debates on the ethics of disclosing genetic information. It comprises a collection of essays written by contributors with a range of disciplinary backgrounds: bioethics, genetic medicine, medical anthropology, philosophy, law and sociology, to cite a few. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the volume advocates for a theoretical and methodological extensi...

Deborah T Gold† & Stuart L Silverman †Author for correspondence Duke University Medical Center, Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Sociology, Center for Aging, Box 3003, Durham, NC 27710, USA Tel.: +1 919 660 7530; Fax: +1 919 668 0453; [email protected] ‘The aging of the US population virtually guarantees that the prevalence of osteoporosis and the incidence of related frac...

This issue of SER contains three articles on public sociology and economic sociology, which all have their origin in a session on this theme that was held at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in August 2006 in Montreal. The reason for organizing this session was a sense that ‘new economic sociology’ has ignored many of the issues that are associated with the term ‘publ...

1. Sociology's Relevance to International Relations 2. Historical Origins of Sociological Thought 3. Historical Sociology 4. The Historical Sociology of the State and International Relations 5. Principles of Historical Sociology 6. Problems with Historical Sociology 7. Sociology of Globalization 8. Global Versus Historical Sociology? 9. The Future Sociological Agenda in International Relations ...

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 ...