Contents
1. Medical Sociology and Sociological Theory
2. The Origin of Medical Sociology
3. Medical Sociology and the Rise of Theory
4. Classical Theory and Its Legacies: Durkheim and Weber
5. Classical Theory and Its Legacies: Marx
6. Symbolic Interaction and Labeling Theory
7. French Structuralism, Poststructuralism, and Postmodernism
8. The Stress Process
9. The Social Construction of Gender and Race
10. Health Lifestyle Theory
11. Life Course Theory
12. Fundamental Cause Theory
13. The Medical Profession and Medicalization
14. Theories of Social Capital
Biography
William C. Cockerham is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Chair Emeritus at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Research Scholar of Sociology at the College of William and Mary. Currently a Deputy Editor of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, he has served on the editorial board of several journals, including the American Sociological Review and Society and Mental Health. He is author of Medical Sociology, 14th ed. (Routledge 2017) and Sociology of Mental Disorder, 10th ed. (Routledge 2017).
