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PubMed1997

Assimilating sociology: critical reflections on the 'sociology in nursing' debate.

We are witnessing the emergence of a 'new nursing'. In part, this has been associated with the adoption of a 'holistic' model of health and a commitment to a holistic curriculum within nurse education. The role of sociology within the nursing enterprise has been the subject of much debate. This paper seeks to further this debate by arguing that sociology is invaluable to nursing for many reasons but that its value may be undermined as a consequence of being overly constrained within the nursing arena, at the mutual expense of both sociology and the long term interests of nursing itself. This paper will suggest that central to an understanding of how this 'surplus constraint' of sociology occurs in an understanding of the manner in which the holistic model has been adopted in much of nursing and nurse education. The 'indeterminacy' of the holistic model is such that is has empowered a questionable eclecticism, marginalized philosophical controversies within nursing theory, disguised difficult epistemological and ontological conflicts associated with competing claims to truth and facilitated the operation of a form of power whereby sociology has been excluded, at the very moment of its apparent inclusion. This paper goes on to argue that the value of sociology to nursing is dependent upon: firstly, a more systematic and rigorous discussion of its relationship to, and role within, nursing and secondly, a movement away from an implicit 'assimilation' model regarding the incorporation of sociology into nursing towards a more 'multi-cultural' approach. Only under such circumstances may sociology's value to nursing be realized but in a manner that places an importance on maintaining the ontological and epistomological integrity of the sociological tradition.

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PubMed1994

Social facts and the sociological imagination: the contributions of sociology to psychiatric epidemiology.

This paper provides a conceptual framework for understanding the relationship of psychiatry, epidemiology, and sociology. After a section on definitions, seven empirical contributions by sociologists to the field of psychiatric epidemiology are briefly presented to illustrate the notion of the social fact (contributions by Durkheim, Dunham, Hollingshead, Srole and Langner, Kerckhoff and Back, Dohrenwend, and Brown). Four broad sociological theories are reviewed, as illustrations of the sociological imagination (stratification theory, the idea of Verstehen, symbolic interactionism, and the sociology of knowledge). It is concluded that two major contributions of sociology to psychiatric epidemiology are the concepts and data related to the social fact, and the possibilities offered by the sociological imagination.

Cross-Cultural Comparison↗
PubMed1995

Developing the sociology of health in nurse education: towards a more critical curriculum--part I: andragogy and sociology in Project 2000.

This paper examines the potential for developing a more critical and reflexive curriculum around the sociology of health in nurse education. In Part One a review of the literature on Project 2000 to date suggests that insufficient attention has been paid to the scope for linking methodological and epistemological issues. it is argued that the status of 'andragogy' as a strategy of teaching and learning is ill-defined and that the nature of sociological theory in nurse education remains too crude and dichotomous to produce the 'knowledgeable doer', a qualitatively different kind of professional nurse practitioner.

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PubMed2001

The role of sociology in the study of mental health ... and the role of mental health in the study of sociology.

This essay considers the dual roles occupied by the sociologist of mental health. These roles involve the articulation of social causation in the study of mental health outside of the discipline, coupled with the articulation within the discipline of the importance of mental health in the study of sociology. I consider these roles both through examples and speculation, emphasizing the unique combination of conceptual and methodological tools that define the intellectual terrain of this area of sociology. The advantage of this dual role--of looking outward while also looking inward--is that we are able to draw from the essential developments and innovations from one source and "move" these insights toward the other. The difficulties of this position are also clear: As an area, we may be structurally marginal from both perspectives, at the same time that we offer considerable analytic power that could significantly impact the direction of research involving mental health in both realms.

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PubMed1995

[Nursing science and sociology: in what way can sociological expertise support nursing research?].

Nursing science is currently orientated towards theories and methods from the social sciences. The article asks in which exact fields nursing science can use experiences of sociologists. Central topics are methodological aspects as well as concrete research contents. The following aspects are dealt with in greater detail: In the methodological field the relation of theory and practice is analyzed. Secondly, the relation of empirical and theoretical methods is described. Concerning the concrete research contents it is suggested that the topics nursing and society, nursing and hospital organisation, and the patient-nurse-interaction by sociological means should be analyzed. Several examples relevant to nursing illustrate the argument.

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PubMed1996

[Social and behavioral factors influencing caries intensity and oral hygiene in an adult population in Budapest (sociological implications of a dental-sociological survey)].

Authors examined 868, 15-69 age old, non-selected patients. The findings of dental aspects of the investigation were reported in this periodical (88, 95-112, 1995). The sociological analysis verified strong connection between oral status and social stratification. The authors found that differences in oral status on the basis of educational qualification are larger than the differences on the basis of occupations. The effects of social factors on oral health behaviour are stronger than on oral status. The authors found strong connection between patients' oral health behaviour and parents motivations for patients' body culture.

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