The sociology textbook: The treatment of conflict in American sociological literature

1972 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-63
Author(s):  
Irving Louis Horowitz
Keyword(s):  
Sociological Literature ◽  
Sociology Textbook

For a Sociology of Sectarianism

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rima Majed
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Disciplinary Knowledge ◽  
Area Studies ◽  
Specific Research ◽  
Sociological Literature

This chapter offers an overview of the study of sectarianism in the Middle East. It argues that, because it has often been treated as an area studies topic, the study of sectarianism has long been absent from the mainstream sociological literature. By bridging between disciplinary knowledge production and the area-specific research agenda, this chapter proposes some conceptual and methodological notes to advance our understanding of the sectarian phenomenon in the Middle East. This chapter is a call for the development of a “sociology of sectarianism,” one that moves beyond Middle East exceptionalism to study the phenomenon of sectarianism in its complexity by locating it historically and analyzing it globally within the broader interlocking systems of social stratification.

Temporal typifications as an organizational resource: Experiential knowledge and patient processing at the emergency department

2021 ◽  
pp. 0961463X2110318
Author(s):  
Marius Wamsiedel
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Department ◽  
Temporal Distribution ◽  
Experiential Knowledge ◽  
Moral Evaluation ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Healthcare Settings ◽  
Organizational Resource ◽  
Sociological Literature ◽  
Common Strategy ◽  
Admission Interviews

The connection between time and power has been studied extensively. A common strategy through which street-level bureaucrats exert power and dominance over their clients consists of imposing protracted waiting and maintaining uncertainty regarding the outcomes of waiting. In this study, I argue that another facet of power in organizations is related to the temporal typification of cases. By exploring the triage work in two emergency departments (EDs), I show that nurses and clerks identify patterns in the temporal distribution of visits and attach clinical and moral meanings to them. The temporal typifications are sense-making devices through which triage workers orient to patients. They form a stock of tacit experiential knowledge that delineates specific expectations about the legitimacy of cases and the worth of patients. These expectations impact the unfolding and structure of triage admission interviews and contribute to the prioritization of cases. The study brings into conversation the sociological literature on time and power with the study of the moral evaluation of patients to examine temporal typifications as an organizational resource in healthcare settings. It contributes to a better understanding of triage workers’ experiential knowledge and the practical accomplishment of moral evaluation in EDs.

scholarly journals Feminist Men and Sexual Behavior: Analyses of Men’s Sex with Women

2020 ◽  
pp. 1097184X2098078
Author(s):  
Max Stick ◽  
Tina Fetner
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Sexual Pleasure ◽  
The Self ◽  
Oral Sex ◽  
Representative Survey ◽  
Sociological Literature ◽  
Feminist Identification ◽  
The Relationship

Men’s identification with and support for feminism has attracted the interest of masculinity scholars. This study explores an under-researched dimension of this phenomenon, investigating the relationship between feminist identification and sexual behavior. In heterosexual encounters, do feminist men report having sex more recently than those who do not call themselves feminists? During sexual encounters, do feminist men behave differently than non-feminists? In particular, do feminist men organize their sexual behavior in a way that prioritizes their partners’ sexual pleasure to a greater extent than non-feminists? Using representative survey data of Canadian adults, we examine the self-reported sexual behavior of heterosexual Canadian men. We find that self-identifying feminist men report having sex more recently and are more likely to report engaging in breast stimulation and performing oral sex on their partners than non-feminists. We discuss the implications of these findings on the sociological literature on gender and sexuality.

The South Italian Family: Literature and Observation

1959 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard Moss ◽  
Walter Thomson
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
American Family ◽  
World War ◽  
The South ◽  
American Sociology ◽  
Italian Family ◽  
Original Culture ◽  
Sociological Literature

The Italian family has long served as a classic example of familial solidarity in the sociological literature. Actually, however, most citations in American sociology refer more often to the Italo-American family than to the Italian family in its original culture setting. With but few exceptions, these studies were completed before World War II and little has been added to the literature since those crucial years.

scholarly journals Dismembering organisation: The coordination of algorithmic work in healthcare

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 546-571
Author(s):  
Simon Bailey ◽  
Dean Pierides ◽  
Adam Brisley ◽  
Clara Weisshaar ◽  
Tom Blakeman
Keyword(s):  
Acute Kidney Injury ◽  
Kidney Injury ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Healthcare Settings ◽  
Expected Performance ◽  
Sociological Literature ◽  
Insight Into

Algorithms are increasingly being adopted in healthcare settings, promising increased safety, productivity and efficiency. The growing sociological literature on algorithms in healthcare shares an assumption that algorithms are introduced to ‘support’ decisions within an interactive order that is predominantly human-oriented. This article presents a different argument, calling attention to the manner in which organisations can end up introducing a non-negotiable disjuncture between human-initiated care work and work that supports algorithms, which the authors call algorithmic work. Drawing on an ethnographic study, the authors describe how two hospitals in England implemented an Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) algorithm and analyse ‘interruptions’ to the algorithm’s expected performance. When the coordination of algorithmic work occludes care work, the study finds a ‘dismembered’ organisation that is algorithmically-oriented rather than human-oriented. In the discussion, the authors examine the consequences of coordinating human and non-human work in each hospital and conclude by urging sociologists of organisation to attend to the importance of the formal in algorithmic work. As the use of algorithms becomes widespread, the analysis provides insight into how organisations outside of healthcare can also end up severing tasks from human experience when algorithmic automation is introduced.

Teaching Professionalism to the Teaching Profession

1981 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Macklin
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Philosophy Of Education ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Fourth Dimension ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Sociological Literature ◽  
Professional Development Of Teachers ◽  
Relational Concept ◽  
Dimensions Of Teaching ◽  
Effective Contribution

This paper proposes a concept of professionalism which (a) distinguishes the essentially professional elements of teaching and (b) establishes in what areas philosophy of education might make an effective contribution to the professional development of teachers. The paper commences with the sociological literature on the formal characteristics of a profession. Four dimensions of teaching are then proposed in order to specify its professional elements. The notion of relevance which underpins my argument is taken to be a relational concept dependent upon the perspective of the person making the relevancy judgment. The relevance of ‘philosophy of education as reflection’ to each of the professional dimensions of teaching is discussed, and an argument mounted for the desirability of reflection as professionally relevant to the fourth dimension of teaching.

Recurring Criminal Scripts: The Routinization of Cases Involving the Murder of a Child

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig J. Forsyth
Keyword(s):  
Death Of A Child ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Capital Murder ◽  
Sociological Literature ◽  
The Common

This paper uses the experiences of a sociologist as an expert mitigation witness in capital murder cases that involved the death of a child. The common themes (scripts) in these cases are explored. The paper then explains why these scripts are important in mitigation work. Finally, the paper fits this research into the previous sociological literature on routines, typifications, and their function in organizations/professions handling large numbers of like clients.

scholarly journals American Society Viewed from Youths’ Lens: A Study on Bob Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall”

Lexicon ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fauzan Rodi ◽  
Rahmawan Jatmiko
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Baby Boomer ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
Baby Boomer Generation ◽  
Bob Dylan ◽  
Sociological Literature ◽  
American Society ◽  
The 1960S

This study examines the lyric of a famous song entitled A Hard Rains a-Gonna Fall composed by American folk musician, Bob Dylan. The objective of this study is to analyze the perspective of the baby-boomer generation, which remarkably differs from that of the older generations in terms of their attitude on certain issues such as war, social injustice, racism and equality in the 1960s America. All of these are reflected in the lyric of the song and also in the sociological and historical facts around the time when the work was created. The approach of sociological literature is employed in this study, which is chosen for the analysis to start from the assumption that the meaning of the lyrics is seen as the reflection of what happens in the society. This is also to reconfirm that a literary work can be used as a means of analyzing a period of time and, therefore, giving insights as to how the general public think about it.

scholarly journals THE SOCIOLOGY OF BATTERED WOMEN

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Babita Tewar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Battered Women ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Urban Background ◽  
Wife Battering ◽  
Sociological Literature ◽  
Indian Perspective

This paper undertakes to examine the hitherto neglected but nevertheless important area of Research , the Sociology of Battered Women. As there are very few researches in Sociological Literature in this area, particularly from the Indian perspective, hence a study in this direction in Kanpur City was carried out. The analysis reveals the diverse factors which lead to wife battering such as the age, religion, caste, educational background, rural or urban background, childbearing, sex, dowry, male child, economic status, dominance of in-laws, etc. The study explores that despite the various empowerment and emancipation strategies adopted by the different sectors of society for women , the ghastly reality still persists that whatsoever be the religion, caste, background of the women, they are being tortured and battered even today. The basic causes behind this being the prevalence of male domination & patriarchal systems, gender discrimination, social dependency and unequal power relations. This social devil can be eliminated only and only after the women gain political and economic power.

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