This is the third issue of Perspectives on Medical Education. PME aims to share with you, our reader, the growing body of knowledge and understanding in the broad domain of health professions education. We aim to inspire you to conduct (more) research yourself and to contribute to the building of a coherent body of evidence. Additionally we hope to increase a further understanding of learning i...

As I have suggested, it would have been difficult for anyone observing the deprofessionalization of physicians and changes in scholarly work to have foreseen that, from the late 1970s to the late 1980s, the history of the profession of medicine would have thrived, indeed, blossomed. With sociology turned elsewhere, with new and different emphases in social history and in the world of intellect ...

This work looks into the meanings of nursing from the point of view of the students in an undergraduate nursing degree program. The research took place at the Universidad Nacional de Lanús using semistructured interviews - eleven individual and seven group interviews - carried out between 2008 and 2010. A content analysis was then undertaken and the most relevant meanings in relation to four th...

This work seeks to analyze the determinants of establishment advertising consulting agencies in Cameroonian cities detriment others. The goal is understand why certain attract agencies. methodological approach consisted, identification headquarters these companies, regulatory texts approving professions, websites and Facebook pages various recognized by National Council for Advertising posters ...

the concept of individualism in the field of sociology was introduced by the empirical scheme of one's position in society. the growing importance of the attention to this pattern affected by social changes has been rapid and rough. cultural and social processes of modernization and modern age always create new conditions and stimulus leading to changes and verities in methods of individua...

first, it is argued that the rule of patterns, the natural consequences of matterialization of science,and the deliberate deviation of the western social sciences from theology are singled out as the factors which have led to the total ignorance of such subject as theology and sociology. similar cases happen in philosophy and science. due to the prevailing cultural atmospher in the west, such a...

This article utilises Foucauldian understandings of the sociology professions to explore how marketising reforms probation services in England and Wales, implementation a ‘Payment by Results’ (PbR) mechanism particular, have impacted professional autonomy. Drawing on an ethnographic study office within privately owned Community Rehabilitation Company, it argues that inability control socio-econ...

mainstream sociology under positivism has sought to provide universal theory, in one hand, and the historiography has attempted to narrative description of events, in the other hand. pathological studies show that both are suffering from extremism; so that mainstream sociology have neglected to study of special affairs and historiography  has not been able to build and provide theoretical gener...

we need sociology theories, for that understand of sociology and politic problems. french sociologist pierre bourdieu's theory practice and symbolic power are our best resource; for understanding social and political fields. this article reviews the language and symbolic power; indicating its function in social and political fields. we need sociology theories, for that understand of sociol...