Through much of its history, medical sociology has directed far more attention to disease and illness than to health and wellness. Today, medical sociologists, like the medical profession and society and general, are seeking more balance in their focus and are studying health more closely. This expanded focus has produced some important questions. What does it mean to be “healthy” or “well”? Ho...

This essay investigates the fraught question of measure pain in a selection Melville's writings and examines how articulation is underwritten by contest between claims arithmetic literature. Closely reading scenes thwarted measurements ‘The Encantadas’ (1854), Moby-Dick (1851), ‘Bartleby’ (1853), it argues that, while problem for Melville may begin on terrain epistemology, ends realm literary r...

Microsel1sors operate under severe energy cOllstraints a'nd should be deployed in large numbers Wilhou! any pre-col/figuration. The maill contribution of this paper is a generalized selfclustering protocol, called Low-energy Localized Clustering (LLC).lt iucorporates the bestfeatllres of two other recently proposed self-configurirzg protocols for sensor networks: the Localized protocol and the ...

Let me begin with my conclusion: Rob Sampson has written a great book. It is a mustread for almost all sociologists and demographers, and especially important for urbanists. Though I have written numerous book reviews and read countless others, this essay is by far the hardest one I’ve been asked to do. It is hard for two reasons: first, there is so much excellent material in Great American Cit...

Many accounts of the micro-macro link use the philosophical notion of emergence to argue that collective phenomena are collaboratively created by individuals yet are not reducible to explanation in terms of individuals. However, emergence has also been invoked by methodological individualists; they accept the existence of emergent social properties yet claim that such properties can be reduced ...

In contrast to the antistructuralist and antipositivist agenda that has animated the “narrative turn” in the social sciences since the 1980s, a more uniquely sociological approach has studied stories in the interactional, institutional, and political contexts of their telling. Scholars working in this vein have seen narrative as powerful, but as variably so, and they have focused on the ways in...

Visualizing data is central to social scientific work. Despite a promising early beginning, sociology has lagged in the use of visual tools. We review the history and current state of visualization in sociology. Using examples throughout, we discuss recent developments in ways of seeing raw data and presenting the results of statistical modeling. We make a general distinction between those meth...