India and the Patent Wars: Pharmaceuticals in the New Intellectual Property Regime [PDF]
, 2017 [Excerpt] India and the Patent Wars contributes to an international debate over the costs of medicine and restrictions on access under stringent patent laws showing how activists and drug companies in low-income countries seize agency and exert ...
Halliburton, Murphy
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A bibliometric review study of Michael Burawoy
Frontiers in SociologyThis review article utilizes the technique of citation-based bibliometric analysis to provide a comprehensive understanding of the scholarly contributions made by sociologist Michael Burawoy.
Aditya Raj, Anushka Sinha
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An institutional sociology perspective of the implementation of activity based costing by Spanish health care institutions [PDF]
According to institutional sociology, hospitals will respond to external environmental pressures and adopt Activity-Based-Costing (ABC). This theory overemphasizes conformity and fails to consider the advantages of organizational non-conformance.
Eriksen, Scott D., Urrutia, Ignacio
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Law, Translation, and Voice:Transformation of a Struggle for Social Justice in a Chinese Village [PDF]
, 2011 The channeling of popular struggles through legal cases is central to the strategy of the emerging “rights defense” movement in China, linking grassroots contention with professional mediators who translate grievances into the institutional environment ...
Woodman, Sophia
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Doing Public Sociology: Student perspectives of international placements [PDF]
, 2016 Here nine Bournemouth University undergraduate sociology students reflect on the international placements they undertook in January 2016 in welfare settings in Penang, Malaysia under the auspices of our partner, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). Placed in
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Monroe Work's Contributions to Public Sociology
Journal of Public and Professional SociologyMonroe Work was a Chicago School trained sociologist, criminologist, and researcher who, despite not being well-known in the social sciences, produced a body of research that is exemplified in what is now known as public sociology.
Leonard A Steverson +2 more
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Public Sociology: Problematics, Publicity, and Possibilities [PDF]
The American Sociologist, 2009 In this issue we present six papers that deal in contrasting ways with the ongoing debate over public sociology. Considered collectively, the analyses portray the public sociology project as impossible or at least seriously hampered, but nevertheless newsworthy, diverse and sometimes triumphant.
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Public Administration Education in Italy: a Statistical Analysis [PDF]
The paper presents a statistical analysis exploring public administration education in Italian universities. It highlights the main specificities of PA education in Italy with reference to the disciplinary character, the geographical distribution, the ...
Denita Cepiku, Marco Meneguzzo
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Water, Politics and Development: Framing a Political Sociology of Water Resources Management
Water Alternatives, 2008 The first issue of Water Alternatives presents a set of papers that investigates the inherently political nature of water resources management. A Water, Politics and Development initiative was started at ZEF (Center for Development Research, Bonn ...
Peter P. Mollinga
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God in Nederland 1996-2006 [PDF]
, 2008 A reading of God in Nederland 1996-2006 informs a critique of some intellectual routines in sociology of religion. On the positive side, the book goes beyond a simplistic one-dimensional conception of "secularization" as declining Christian ...
Houtman, D. (Dick)
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