1st Edition
Sociology, Health and the Fractured Society A Critical Realist Account
By Graham Scambler
Copyright 2018
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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It is now accepted that many of the determinants of health and health care are social. This volume offers a philosophical and theoretical frame within which the nature and extent of this might be optimally examined. The analysis is rooted in Roy Bhaskar’s basic and dialectical critical realism, although it draws also on the critical theory of Jurgen Habermas. It purports to provide an... Read more
Introduction
Part I
1. Health as a Social Lens
2. Perspectives in Health Sociology
Part II
3. Basic Critical Realism and Health
4. Archer, Reflexivity and Middle-Range Theories
5. The Sociological Potential of Dialectical Critical Realism
Part III
6. ‘Fractured Society’: Health and The Mechanisms That Matter Most
7. Transformative Politics and Change
8. A Sociological Manifesto
References
Index
Biography
Graham Scambler was Professor of Medical Sociology at UCL until his retirement in 2013, and is currently Emeritus Professor of Sociology at UCL and Visiting Professor of Sociology at Surrey University.
