sor of Sociology in the Graduate School of Business and the Department of Sociology, as well as Director of the Center for Health Administration Studies at the University of Chicago. His current major interest is comparative health systems is explored in Health Care: Can There Be Equity? The United States, Sweden, and England. ABSTRACT: A review of the emerging literature on crossnational healt...

a Department of Sociology, Pennsylvania State University, United States b Department of Education Policy Studies, Pennsylvania State University, United States c Department of Neurology, Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University, United States d Department of Radiology, Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University, United States e Group for Analysis of Development (GRADE), L...

1 Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA 2 Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA 3 Department of Anthropology, Cambridge University, Cambridge, CB2 3DZ, UK 4 Medical Genetics Department, University of California, San Diego, CA 92103, USA 5 Political Science Department, University of California, San Diego,...

Kalleberg (Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo) (Corresponding author email: [email protected]) © London School of Economics and Political Science 2005 ISSN 0007-1315 print/1468-4446 online. Published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA on behalf of the LSE. DOI: 10.1111/j....

The hidden implications of radical group rhetoric: Integrative complexity and terrorism Lucian Gideon Conway III a , Laura Janelle Gornick a , Shannon Houck a , Kirsten Hands Towgood b & Kathrene R. Conway c a Department of Psychology, The University of Montana, Missoula, USA b Department of Sociology, The University of Montana, Missoula, USA c Department of Public Health, The University of Mon...

Active social citizenship: the case of disabled peoples' rights to personal assistance Karen Christensen a , Ingrid Guldvik b & Monica Larsson c a Department of Sociology , University of Bergen , Bergen , Norway b Department of Pedagogy and Social Studies , Lillehammer University College , Lillehammer , Norway c Department of Social Work , Malmø University , Malmø , Sweden Published online: 22 ...

Rafael Merino Senior lecturer and lecturer of the Department of Sociology, in the sociology unit of the Faculty of Education Science of the Autonomous University of Barcelona since 1993. Currently reader. Since 1992 researcher with the Education and Work Research Group of the same university (GRET Grupo de Investigación Educación y Trabajo), pursuing avenues of research into the transition betw...

The North East Medical Sociology Group is pleased to announce details of the next half day seminar to be held on the afternoon of Wednesday 26 March 2014 at Teesside University, Darlington Campus. There will be a keynote presentation by Professor Sarah Nettleton from the Department of Sociology at University of York. There will additionally be three presentations from local speakers, together w...

Like other visible characteristics such as skin color, gender, or age, body size is a diffuse status characteristic that impacts perceptions, interactions, and social outcomes. Studies demonstrate that individuals hold preconceived notions about what it means to be fat and document a long list of negative stereotypes associated with fat individuals, including laziness, unintelligence, and incom...

Goffman’s analysis of gambling is very important for our overall understanding of his work. This is because Goffman’s sociology is driven by both theoretical and ethnographic impulses, and his gambling project is the third of his three major ethnographic investigations. Goffman’s study of gambling is a key component in his sociology because it (a) develops a conceptual approach to the study of ...