The discussion in the sociology of science about the role of model systems in biology provides an invitation to reflect on whether and how they operate in sociology in comparison to other disciplines. This paper shows that sociology too relies on objects of study that receive a disproportionate amount of attention and implicitly come to stand in for a specific class of objects. But, unlike othe...

Nordic countries are considered international leaders in producing combinable data on their citizens’ encounters with public institutions, as well the digitalisation of services. Public-sector professionals increasingly collaborate private IT companies developing analytics products for cost saving and cost-efficiency. This article presents results a two-year ethnographic study collaboration bet...

In this article we revisit Alvin Gouldner’s The Corning Crisis o,f Wvstern Sociology ( I 970). I n part, this article is an attempt to apply Gouldner’s own lessons about the sociology of knowledge to his own work, situating it with respcct to the dominant epistemological unconscious of late 1960s American sociology as well as thc broader historical context of a still-vibrant Fordist inode of so...

nowadays, social networks play a key role in the study of sociology, socialpsychology and sociology. social network facebook has turned into a virtualsystem covering more than 900 million people around the world. in islamicrevolution of iran as a world revolution, universal definition, it can use as anew possibility. this paper will identify the capabilities and challenges withusing facebook. p...

African Americans, Latinos, and American Indians are severely underrepresented in the health professions. A strong case for diversity may be made on the grounds of civil rights, public health and educational benefit, and business gains. Improving the diversity of the health professions requires multiprong strategies addressing the educational pipeline, admissions policies and the institutional ...

At some historical points, all classes and professions of a society, despite all the differences and disagreements, flow into one single stream to reach a higher goal. Iranians have had this historical experience many times throughout history: during the Constitutional Revolution (1905-1911), and also in the Islamic Revolution in 1979. In the Constitutional Revolution, all classes and professio...