Contemporary Theorists for Medical Sociology explores the work of key social theorists and the application of their ideas to issues around health and illness. Encouraging students and researchers to use mainstream sociological thought to inform their substantive research on health and healthcare, this text discusses the work of eleven influential contemporary thinkers - Habermas, Luhmann, Wallerstein, Bauman, Bourdieu, Foucault, Merleau-Ponty, Archer, Latour and Deleuze & Guatt. Each chapter includes a critical introduction to the central theses of a major social theorist, ways in which their...
Contemporary Theorists for Medical Sociology explores the work of key social theorists and the application of their ideas to issues around health and ...
It is now accepted that many of the determinants of health and health care are social. This volume offers a philosophical and theoretical frame within which the nature and extent of this might be optimally examined. The analysis is rooted in Roy Bhaskar's basic and dialectical critical realism, although it draws also on the critical theory of Jurgen Habermas. It purports to provide an ontologically and epistemologically grounded comparative sociology of contemporary health and health care in the twenty-first century.
Carrying a fourfold agenda, the volume sets out a...
It is now accepted that many of the determinants of health and health care are social. This volume offers a philosophical and theoretical frame wit...
Professor Margaret Archer is a leading critical realist and major contemporary social theorist. This edited collection seeks to celebrate the scope and accomplishments of her work, distilling her theoretical and empirical contributions into four sections which capture the essence and trajectory of her research over almost four decades. Long fascinated with the problem of structure and agency, Archer s work has constituted a decade-long engagement with this perennial issue of social thought. However, in spite of the deep interconnections that unify her body of work, it is rarely treated as...
Professor Margaret Archer is a leading critical realist and major contemporary social theorist. This edited collection seeks to celebrate the scope...
While tracing the historical emergence of the cafe as a social institution and noting its multiple faces and functions in the modernity of the occident, three themes run like threads of varying texture through the chapters: the social connectivity and inclusion of cafes, cafe as surrogate office, and cafe as site of exchange for news and views.
While tracing the historical emergence of the cafe as a social institution and noting its multiple faces and functions in the modernity of the occiden...
A new edition of a seminal sociology of health textbook which offers an up-to-date, concise and theoretically and empirically informed introduction to the core topics in the sociology of health and health care.
A new edition of a seminal sociology of health textbook which offers an up-to-date, concise and theoretically and empirically informed introduction to...
A new edition of a seminal sociology of health textbook which offers an up-to-date, concise and theoretically and empirically informed introduction to the core topics in the sociology of health and health care.
A new edition of a seminal sociology of health textbook which offers an up-to-date, concise and theoretically and empirically informed introduction to...
