Emotions lie at the juncture between mind and body, culture and biology and are crucial to our survival by their ‘signal function‘ in relation to danger. Yet despite their cultural significance, and the obvious implications for the study of health and illness in particular, social science research in this area has remained predominantly under the psychological rubric until very recently. Echoin...

Ao comemorar trinta anos de atividades ininterruptas, a revista Sociology of Health and Illness publicou dois artigos que, embora se refiram aos Estados Unidos e Reino Unido, apresentam importantes reflexões sobre o campo da sociologia da saúde que não se limitam aos países de língua inglesa. Ambos abordam os desafios atuais tanto para orientar os futuros passos da área como para evidenciar a s...

The sociology of mental health focuses on the epidemiology, etiology, correlates, and consequences of mental health (i.e., psychiatric disorder and symptoms, psychological distress, and subjective well-being) in an attempt to describe and explain how social structure influences an individual's psychological health. Critical race theory describes and explains iterative ways in which race is soci...

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...

Within the subfield of the sociology of health and illness, mental health is a well-established and major area of sociological inquiry and interest. This prominent interest has necessarily brought sociologists into contact with other disciplines concerned with research and practice in the area of mental illness. The most notable of these has been the discipline of psychiatry. As Norman Elias no...

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...

It is widely accepted that policy-makers (in Nepal and elsewhere) can learn valuable lessons from the way other countries run their health and social services. We highlight some of the specific contributions the discipline of sociology can make to cross-national comparative research in the public health field. Sociologists call attention to often unnoticed social and cultural factors that influ...