Materials include classical theoretical works and contemporary studies. Political economy of health care in the United States with concentration on the roles of the medical profession in the system. Issues include the social construction of illness, the social organization of treatment, and the institutional organization of the medical profession in its methods of recruitment and training. Discusses relations between the medical profession, paraprofessional occupations, third-party payers, and the government . A sociological perspective on American education.
Emphasis is on American institutions, although comparative perspectives are discussed.
The occupational and institutional organization of the production and distribution of the arts. The arts are analyzed as secondary occupations with special problems of commitment, identity, and standards as well as of economic survival. Sociology of Science G93.2418 Addresses the three major issues of relations between science and other institutions in society, the inner workings of science as an institution, and how the foregoing social factors influence the content of science. G93.2422 Reviews and evaluates the most important perspectives on the relationship between knowledge and social structure. Focuses on a number of research strategies concerned with types of knowledge and knowledge-systems, codes and symbols, the manipulation of knowledge for social and political purposes, the study of ideologies, and the major factors in knowledge production.