Sociology, Health and the Fractured Society: A Critical Realist Account
Graham Scambler, "Sociology, Health and the Fractured Society: A Critical Realist Account "
English | ISBN: 1138909823 | 2018 | 216 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1138909823 | 2018 | 216 pages | PDF | 2 MB
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 ontologically and epistemologically grounded comparative sociology of contemporary health and health care in the twenty-first century.
Carrying a fourfold agenda, the volume sets out a dialectical critical realist frame for a comparative sociology of health and health care; it clarifies sociology’s potential and limitations; it suggests a research programme and a series of questions for investigation; and it offers an argument for an action sociology embedded in a dialectical theory of transformative action.
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