Medical Sociology and Sociological Theory

The New Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-26

  Cockerham, William C ^a   Scambler, Graham ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Classical theorists Comte, Spencer, Simmel, Marx, Durkheim and Weber; Conflict theory with roots in Karl Marx and Max Weber; Critical theory and J rgen Habermas; Medical sociology and sociological theory; Parsons, Durkheim, and structural functionalism; Participant observation primary form of qualitative research; Poststructuralism, Michel Foucault and social constructionism; Structural functionalism and value consensus, social order, stability and functional processes; Symbolic interaction challenging Parsons and structural functionalist theory in medical sociology; Symbolic interaction taking image of a "fixed doctrine" and its subsequent decline

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879139947     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444314786.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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