Max Weber and Georg Simmel are considered as ideal-typical founders of sociology. Whereas Simmel pleaded for a large conception of sociology, which would include the epistemological and metaphysical issues as well, Max Weber explicitly excluded philosophical questions from the domain of sociology. A philosophical reading of Max Weber’s sociology, which uncovers his philosophy in the margins of ...

and illegitimate babies and, in some countries, to serious overpopulation. Susser and Watson's book deals with many of these problems and contrasts the health experiences of peasant and industrial populations and in different social classes. The second edition has been enlarged by about one third due to the addition of material from the American experience of the authors and by the addition of ...

Women have a life-expectancy advantage over men, but a marked disadvantage with regards to morbidity. This is known as the female-male health-survival paradox in disciplines such as medicine, medical sociology, and epidemiology. Individual differences in physical and mental health are further notably explained by the degree of stress individuals endure, with women being more affected by stresso...

Entrepreneurs in high technology industries often have prior experience at incumbent firms, but we know little about how knowledge obtained at the prior employer impacts entrepreneurial performance. Drawing on previous work from management, economics, and organizational sociology, I assess the impact of prior industry experience on entrepreneurial performance and innovation in medical device st...

The advent of public sociology over the past decade represents the end of a string of crisis moments in sociology. Since the 1950s and, especially, the 1960s, sociology was argued to be in a crisis because the discipline was thought to be conservative and contributing to sustain the status quo. As a result, the 1970s witnessed a radicalization of sociology, but the 1980s saw a general decline o...

A A c c c c o o u u n n t t s s Following the theme of August's ASA conference in Montréal, Great Divides, Transgress-ing Boundaries, our goal for this issue of Accounts is to foster a discussion of the boundaries between economic sociology and other areas within sociology. Economic sociology has expanded very rapidly in recent years, with explosions in section membership, publications, and oth...

Author details Department of Health Education and Promotion, School of Health, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Parvin Etesami Street, P.O. Box: 451578-6349, Zanjan, Iran. Department of Health Education and Promotion, School of Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, P.O. Box 15875-6951, Tehran, Iran. Mental Health Research Group, Health Metrics Research Center, Institute for Healt...

Most serious efforts aimed at linking social and behavioral sciences knowledge to medical practice have included "models" which integrate social and behavioral science concepts. We argue that such an integration is intellectually problematic due to an important analytic distinction between "social" sciences and "psychological" sciences. If the social explanation of illness is to become useful i...