Advanced Search Results For "SOCIOLOGY"
Your filters
Introduction to special issue: New dialogues between medical sociology and disability studies.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Sociology of health & illness [Sociol Health Illn] 2023 Jul; Vol. 45 (6), pp. 1133-1145. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 May 26.
Articulating the canon: The sociology of medical education from 1980 to 2000.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Health (London, England : 1997) [Health (London)] 2023 Mar; Vol. 27 (2), pp. 169-185. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 May 02.
Abstract: An exciting development in the sociology of medical education has been its recent return as a distinct scholarly conversation in medical sociology. During the 1980s and 1990s, the sociology of medical education, an historically prominent subfield in so...
Rethinking the nation and international relations: The space of nation states.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): The British journal of sociology [Br J Sociol] 2023 Sep; Vol. 74 (4), pp. 673-689. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 May 11.
Abstract: Efforts to move sociology beyond the nation state and international relations theory have both been plagued by several limitations and dualisms. Recent research has begun to find ways beyond the problems by turning to Pierre Bourdieu's relational conce...
Sociology after the postcolonial: Response to Julian Go's 'thinking against empire'.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): The British journal of sociology [Br J Sociol] 2023 Jun; Vol. 74 (3), pp. 310-323. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jan 24.
Abstract: Julian Go's 'Thinking Against Empire' identifies the corpus of 'anticolonial thought' as being instructive for a wider rethinking of how sociology might rally its key conceptualisations of social relations. He insightfully identifies the marginalisatio...
The (postcolonial) return of grand theory in American sociology: Julian Go on postcolonial thought and social theory.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): The British journal of sociology [Br J Sociol] 2023 Jun; Vol. 74 (3), pp. 302-309. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Dec 28.
Abstract: Julian Go's BJS annual lecture is discussed in reference to his landmark OUP text Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory (2016). Go is one of the most prominent names in a "third wave" of post-colonial thought, now spearheading a post- (or de-) colonia...
Varieties of improvement expertise: Knowledge and contestation in health-care improvement.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Sociology of health & illness [Sociol Health Illn] 2023 May; Vol. 45 (4), pp. 734-753. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jan 27.
Abstract: The 'improvement' of health care is now established and growing as a field of research and practice. This article, based on qualitative data from interviews with 21 senior leaders in this field, analyses the growth of improvement expertise as not simpl...
Missing Pieces: Engaging Sociology of Disability in Medical Sociology.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Journal of health and social behavior [J Health Soc Behav] 2021 Dec; Vol. 62 (4), pp. 477-492. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Jun 08.
Abstract: Medical sociologists and sociologists of disability study similar topics but, because of competing or conflicting theoretical paradigms, tend to arrive at different conclusions, engage with different audiences, and pursue different directions for socia...
Working it out: Will the improved management of leaky bodies in the workplace create a dialogue between medical sociology and disability studies?
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Sociology of health & illness [Sociol Health Illn] 2023 Jul; Vol. 45 (6), pp. 1276-1299. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Sep 05.
Abstract: This article focuses on the workplace as a significant site of convergence between the disciplines of medical sociology and disability studies. As disability remains on the margins of sociological exploration and theorising relating to health and work,...
Spatio-temporal patterns in the history of colonial botanical exploration in India.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Endeavour [Endeavour] 2023 Jun; Vol. 47 (1-2), pp. 100859. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 May 09.
Abstract: A study of Indian botany during the colonial period provides us with an interdisciplinary sphere covering science, politics, sociology, economics, and other associated domains. The presentation of this rich legacy to general readers often restricts its...