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Public health is a broad field that touches several different medical disciplines such as epidemiology, public health informatics, health statistics, environmental protection (ecology), sociology, health promotion, disease prevention and organization of health care for nosological groups of the population. In Europe and the world today is developed a fairly extensive network of scientific and p...

the sociology of law is concerned with explaining the relationship between law and society and studying of the social organization of law (as an order or a system), the social interactions of legal practitioners and people in this area and the meaning that people actually give to sociolegal realities. among the founding fathers of sociology, max weber is one of the most famous thinkers that eve...

1Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia; 2Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, Dental and Health Services, University of Melbourne, Australia; 3Institute of Population Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; 4Middlesex University Business School, London, UK; 5Departm...

The concept of social structure is one of the main building blocks of the social sciences, but it lacks any precise technical definition within general sociological theory. This paper reviews the way in which the concept has been deployed within medical sociology, arguing that in recent times it has been used primarily as a frame for the sociological interpretation of health inequalities and th...

english translations of texts associated with arabic fiction remain largely unexplored from a sociological perspective. drawing on pierre bourdieu’s sociology, this paper aims to examine the genesis of arabic fiction translation into english as a socially situated activity. works of arabic fiction emerged in english translation in the early twentieth century. since then, this intellectual field...

The authors propose that professionalism, rather than being left to the chance that students will model themselves on ideal physicians or somehow be permeable to other elements of professionalism, is fostered by students' engagement with significant, integrated experiences with certain kinds of content. Like clinical reasoning, which cannot occur in a vacuum but must be built on particular know...