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 ...

This study aimed to highlight, illustrate, describe, and comment on the presence of the health category in the work of Pierre Bourdieu, by underlining the themes traditionally related to the sociology of the body. After a systematic analysis of his work in the sociology of medicine and health, the article also addresses the main vehicle for his line of thought, namely Actes de la Recherche en S...

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...

Do all disciplines fret over the state of their own intellectual and policy-relevant health? Is it a symptom of our hyper-reflexive and confessional times that collective anxiety has to be rehearsed over the track record, and present and projected performance of a group of scholars? Medical sociology’s lengthy reflections on the state of its own practice are recognizable as part of a more gener...

This paper proposes a re-thinking of the relationship between sociology and the biological sciences. Tracing lines of connection between the history of sociology and the contemporary landscape of biology, the paper argues for a refiguration of this relationship beyond popular rhetorics of 'biologization' or 'medicalization.' At the heart of the paper is a claim that, today, there are some poten...

Prior to the establishment of Health Communication as an independent field of study, the socio-cultural dimensions of health and illness (patient/health aide relationship, social representations in health, etc.) were largely covered by sociology and anthropology. (Adam, and Herzlich 1994) Jodelet: “These pioneering disciplines have not failed to integrate a perspective of the individual in thei...

Karolien van Nunen, Elke Leuridan, Guido Van Hal, Pierre Van Damme, & Tom Decorte Department of Epidemiology and Social Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Research Group Medical Sociology and Health Policy, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute, Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccination, University...

This article has as a central focus the chair of sociology, aiming to expose historical traces its institutionalization in secondary studies Sergipe, since first signs, 1892, when it was created under name “sociologia, moral, noções de economia política e direito pátrio” (sociology, notions political economy and national law), until 1925, became an autonomous chair. The documental sources used ...