William G. Ambrose Jr.*, Lisa M. Clough, Jeffrey C. Johnson, Michael Greenacre, David C. Griffith, Michael L. Carroll 2 and Alex Whiting 1 Department of Biology, Bates College, Lewiston, ME, USA 2 Akvaplan-niva, FRAMHigh North Research Centre for Climate and the Environment, Tromsø, Norway 3 Division of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, USA 4 Department of Sociology an...

Lawrence L. Wu is professor and chair, and Jui-Chung Allen Li is a Ph.D. candidate, in the Department of Sociology at New York University. E-mail: [email protected] Aremarkable design aspect of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) is the availability of longitudinal data on all children born to women in the original NLSY79 sample. The resulting data from the Children of the...

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 ...

(b) The administration of the Health Department to be per medium of a Governing Board representative of the various sciences concerned in the maintenance of racial health, i.e., Applied Biology, Chemistry, Dentistry, Economics, Education, Endocrinology, Ethics, Eugenics, Hygiene and Sex Hygiene, Medicine (including the establishment of a Chair of Pediatrics), Nutritional Physiology, Pharmaceuti...

B. At least one course will be taken in each of the following areas: social science, humanities, and history. C. At least four courses will be taken in one of the following disciplines as a field of specialization: literature, music, history, political science, sociology, and economics. A candidate may elect a five-course interdisciplinary focus on Africa or Afro-American affairs as a specializ...

Methods for group comparisons using predicted probabilities and marginal effects on probabilities are developed for the binary regression model. Unlike standard tests that compare regression coefficients across groups, the tests we propose are unaffected by the identification of the coefficients and are expressed in the natural metric of the outcome probability. While we focus on the logit mode...

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...

1Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 2Public Policy Research Institute, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 3Department of Sociology, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China 4Kiang Wu Nursing College of Macau, Macau 5Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Kentucky Children’s Hospital, University of K...