Contrary to current tendencies, the founders of sociology as a discipline regarded the sociology of law as an integral part of social theory. Law and its historical variations were treated by them as constitutive components of social life. This can be demonstrated especially with regard to Émile Durkheim and Max Weber. It also provides an opportunity to highlight the diVerences between these au...

Eliot Freidson (1923-2005) is considered one of the founders of the sociology of medicine. Both his critics and admirers in the sociological and medical fields recognize his work as an international benchmark. This paper analyzes Freidson's intellectual biography without concentrating on his ideas or their transformation over the course of time. The emphasis is on the personal constraints that ...

Although researchers in such diverse fields as economics and organizational sociology have explored firm exit, little research has explored entrepreneurial exit–the decision by the majority-owner founders of privately-held firms to harvest their profits and remove themselves from the primary ownership and decision-making structure of the firm. Yet, all entrepreneurs in one way or another will l...

pedigree information of iranian holstein dairy cattle, collected via animal breeding centre of iran from 1971 to 2007, were utilized to describe the reasons for the increasing inbreed coefficient. inbreeding coefficient (f) and pedigree completeness (pci) of all the available cattle were found out using a pedigree structure of 883713 animals. the herds with pci of above 0.85 were picked out and...

Environmental economics and ecological became established scientific fields as a result of the growth success environmental movement in 1960s 1970s. Using strong programme sociology knowledge general theory scientific/intellectual movements, this article compares four pairs scholars (two appropriated for these fields' founders during emergence establishment fields). The depicts how their instit...