Organizational sociology is, by most standards, a fundamental part of the discipline— after all, figuring out how to collectively organize ourselves is a core problem of any society—but many have wondered if it’s a subfield on the brink of irrelevance. Blog posts and a recent ASA session have been dedicated to this question: what is the future of organizational sociology? There are numerous ins...

BACKGROUND Progressive independence is a traditional premise of clinical training. Recently, issues such as managed care, work hours limitation, and patient safety have begun to impact the degree of autonomy afforded to clinical trainees. This article reviews empirical evidence and theory pertaining to the role of progressive autonomy in clinical learning. METHOD A computerized literature sea...

george bernard shaw's masterpiece pygmalion deals with the social function of language and reveals that linguistic competence is one of the markers of social status. it presents the story of the social transformation of a flower girl into a ‘lady’ through linguistic retraining. this work has been analyzed from a variety of perspectives such as freudian psychology and sociolinguistic perspective...

Young people’s relationships, both with close friends and others in their wider peer group, have been the focus of an extensive body of research within the disciplines of sociology, anthropology and psychology. Indeed, the peer-orientation of young people is widely assumed within much of this literature (Bukowski et al. 1996; Coleman and Hendry, 1999), as well as within more popular discourses ...

The aim of this article is to re-inspect the possibility or repudiation of Sociology of Religion. This idea is done by researching the previous critiques of this branch of sociology and the criticism of these challenges. In the following discussion about each of aspects, it is tried to answer the extant uncertainties according to one of the most important expositors (H. A. Tanhaee).