The life course has become a topic of growing interest within the social sciences. Attempts to link this sub-discipline with life span developmental psychology have been called for but with little sign of success. In this paper, we seek to address three interlinked issues concerning the potential for a more productive interchange between life course sociology and life span psychology. The first...

The human body is endowed with varied forms of social significance, and it is this which sociology has addressed by asking questions such as: Towhat degree do individuals have control over their own bodies? Using familiar examples from everyday life, such as diet and exercise regimes,personal hygiene, dress, displays of emotion, and control over bodilyfunctions. This research investigates the b...

Does the discipline of Sociology need to be defended from fragmentation by mobilisation a canon derived its classical legacy? The paper provides an exposition arguments Turner, Susen and O’Neill concerning as discipline. It investigates whether there is or reinvigorated synthesis in three examples: inequality beyond class, posthumanism postmodernism. draws on reading contemporary theoretical de...

the increasing trend of divorce during recent decade and consequently a rise in the number of men and women who have experienced divorce, clarifies the importance of paying attention to post-divorce life. however the study of how divorced subjects deal with life after divorce and also their perception, especially with a gender approach has been a neglected area in the iranian sociology. therefo...

This article is a study on life trajectories and changes of the self one single person, following transformation processes that occurred in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas during last two decades focusing relationship between Evangelicals drug traffickers. Based an ethnography almost years Cidade Deus favela, trajectory individual, former dealer crack addict who switched church traffic throughout fiel...

Page I Abstract This is an ethnographic study of the creation of a particular type of standard enterprise software package: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, which support wide-ranging organisational functions within large and medium sized enterprises. Drawing upon the Social Shaping of Technology perspective and recent related attempts to theorise the Biography of Artefacts, this the...

Sociology Compass. 2017;11:e12456. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12456 Abstract In the societal debate surrounding voluntary euthanasia or physician‐assisted suicide, there is a concern that older people will be left exposed to any legislation, subject to either faint suggestion or outright coercion from familial or professional carers. Whilst it is critical to take account of older people’s pot...