Prior to that point, research on topics of mental health were present among the founding and most influential works in both European and American Sociology as well. Today, 20years after its formation in 1992, the Section of the Sociology of Mental Health (SSMH) is large and vibrant with ...
Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research Series ISSN 1389-6903 Publisher Springer US Copyright Holder Springer Science+Business Media New York Additional Links About this Book Topics Sociology, general Public Health Personality and Social Psychology Clinical Psychology Psychiatry eBook Packages eB...
This student-friendly text provides an in-depth overview of the field of medical sociology, offering solid coverage of traditional topics while providing significant coverage of current issues related to health, healing, and illness. This text integrates recent research in medical sociology and ...
Sociology of Health & Illness is an international journal which publishes sociological articles on all aspects of health, illness, medicine and health care. We welcome empirical and theoretical contributions in this field in the form of original research reports or review articles. In addition to the...
… and on other ways of researching everyday life: Bryman, A.E. (2015) Social Research Methods (5thedition) Oxford: Oxford University Press. (chapters on various research methods, and ethical issues) Elliott, H. (1997) “The use of diaries in sociological research on health experience.” ...
The research published in the journal includes both quantitative and qualitative research methods, encouraging interdisciplinary research perspectives such as psychology, sociology, public health, economics, and anthropology. The Journal of Social and Mental Health focuses on the impact of social inequality,...
especially by asking questions about the interplay between ICTs and social inclusion to involve often-overlooked spatial dimensions at the local and regional levels. Doing so will require dialogue, discernment, and active engagement on the topics we explore, the research methods we employ, and incorpo...
Colorism or skin tone bias is a form of discrimination based on skin tone that typically awards advantages to light-skinned people while penalizing dark-skinned people within an ethnic group. There is very little research on colorism in higher education...Read Article » ...
on which they rely. First expressed in research on crime and deviant behavior (Spector and Kitsuse, 1977), a similar logic has been applied to the understanding of various forms of ill health, including mental illness (Szasz, 1960) and morerecently obesity (Gard and Wright, 2005), ...
The common sources of error in survey research include: A poorly worded question. The way the question is asked by the interviewer. Misunderstanding on the part of the respondent being interviewed. Memory problems on the part of the respondent. ...