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Our Studies, Ourselves
What motivates a lifelong scholarly pursuit, and how do one's studies inform life outside the academy? Sociologists, who live in families but also study families, who go to work but also study work, who participate in communities but also try to understand communities, have an especially intimate relation to their research. Growing up poor, struggling as a woman in a male-dominated profession, participating in protests against the Vietnam War; facts of life influence research agendas, individual understandings of the world, and ultimately the shape of the discipline as a whole. Barry Glassner and Rosanna Hertz asked twenty-two of America's most prominent sociologists to reflect upon how thei...
The Craft of Inquiry
In his provocative new book, Robert Alford proposes that the starting point for any researcher in the process and craft of inquiry should begin with an understanding of how to translate elements of his/her own history, personal experience, and issues which can then be formulated into researchquestions. He presents three basic explanatory approaches to sociology -- multivariate, interpretive, and historical -- and strives to illustrate the artistic, rather than formulaic, side of research design, presenting several ways that research questions can be framed.
Debtors in Court
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Politics and Health Care Organization
Discussion of health policies for health service delivery, assessing the "Health Maintenance Organisation" (Prepaid Group Practice of physicians) as a cost-containment strategy in the USA - examines problems of organisation, management (incl. Administrative aspects and political aspects), financing, efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the HMO; comments on the limitations of legislation; includes policy alternatives. References.
Societas
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Class Struggle and the New Deal
In this reassessment of New Deal policymaking, Rhonda Levine argues that the major constraints upon and catalysts for FDR's policies were rooted in class conflict. Countering neo-Marxist and state-centred theories, which focus on administrative and bureaucratic structures, she contends that too little attention has been paid to the effect of class struggle.
Canada's Subarctic Universities
Based on a conference attended by delegates of four of Canada's subarctic universities - Lakehead, Chicoutimi, Laurentian and Abitibi-Temiscamingue. A section is devoted to each university beginning with a statement of its special character, regional setting and roles and includes articles on ongoing research at the institution.
