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Science remains an eminently social institution, though the interactions between science & society are often poorly understood. This article addresses the context of recent efforts to identify environmental contributions to cancer. The authors first examine cancer incidence & discuss how incidence patterns may be related to air pollution & occupational & general toxic chemical & xenestrogen exposures. They then discuss the social context in which cancer research & treatment occurs, including the dominating role of the biomedical model & socioeconomic factors, including regulatory strategies that address single chemicals, corporate conflicts of interest, & the manipulation of public opinion. Last, they consider the broad context out of which cancer arises & discuss the merits of applying the precautionary principle to sustainable social policies. Progress in reducing cancer may be fruitfully made by returning our attention to broad-scale factors such as those affecting the quality of air, water, workplace, household environments, & the global climate. 92 References. [Copyright 2002 Sage Publications, Inc.]

Résumé Deux collègues sociologues brésiliens analysent la fondation du système d'enseignement et de recherche des sciences sociales dans leur pays. Bien que de fondation récente, son expansion est notoire. Ils nous présentent l'état des lieux ainsi que les thèmes étudiés selon la conjoncture politique et sociale. Ils analysent le passage de thèmes consacrés aux analyses macrosociales à des thèmes plus circonscrits aux nouvelles questions sociales, à la sociologie de l'entreprise ou aux études régionales, suite aux échecs rencontrés par les politiques publiques et aux espoirs déçus.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Classical Yerstehen Position -- Chapter 2. The Positivists' Critique I: Not a Method of Verification -- Chapter 3. The Positivists' Critique II: Not a Necessary Condition for Understanding -- Chapter 4. Verstehen and Ordinary Language Philosophy -- Chapter 5. Verstehen and Situational Logic -- Chapter 6. Verstehen and Phenomenology -- Chapter 7. Verstehen and the Sciences of Man -- Chapter 8. Verstehen and Anthropology -- Chapter 9. Verstehen and Critical Theory -- Conclusion: Towards a Theory of Methodological Pluralism -- Index

1. Introduction -- Part 1: The Challenges of Diversity and Inclusion- 2. Exploring the criminology curriculum – reflections on developing and embedding critical information literacy -- 3. Teaching Criminal Justice as Feminist Praxis -- 4. Chapter Teaching 'Race' in the Criminology Classroom: towards an anti-racist pedagogy -- Part 2: The Challenges of Creating Authentic Learning Environments - 5. Chapter Promoting success for all in Criminology: Widening Participation and recognising difference -- 6. Putting the Cyber into Cybercrime Teaching -- 7. Visualising injustice with undergraduate smartphone photography -- Part 3: The Challenges of Creating Transformative Conversations - 8. Transforming Criminology: Strategies for Embedding 'Employability' Across the Criminology Undergraduate Curricula, - 9. Balancing Sympathy and Empathy in an Emotive Discipline -- 10. Reasonably Uncomfortable: Teaching Sensitive Material Sensitively -- 11. Decolonising the Curriculum: who is in the room? - 12. Conclusion: Pedagogical Principles for Criminology and Criminal Justice.

Social historians formed an important part of the Social Science History Association from its early days, and they widened its intellectual space beyond initial emphases on political history and quantitative methods. Lee Benson and other faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as Charles and Louise Tilly, were particularly influential in attracting a broad mix of scholars to the group. The openness of the association and its interdisciplinarity appealed to younger scholars, and those interested in the "new urban history" were early recruits. A growing number of women, many of whom were social historians, participated in the first conventions and newly organized networks.

Part of the Conference on the State of the Social Sciences held at Boston U, 6-7 Dec 2002. The session focuses on whether the social sciences need reform. An overview of the development of the social sciences & their current state is followed by a discussion of organizational & ideological challenges & the designation of shared methodological & evidentiary conventions as reactionary, which has resulted in a good deal of clever if facile posturing. The struggle between traditional & radical approaches -- between rationality & subjectivism -- forms the body of the debate, with attention to both macro & micro implications. K. Coddon

The essays in this collection analyze the successes and failures of the social sciences over the last few decades as well as on their future. The focus of the book is on generic problems, difficulties, and dilemmas in the social sciences that the contributors are uniquely qualified to articulate. Each of them has been intimately involved in the development of one or another discipline in the last thirty years or so; each has made significant contributions to that development in many ways; each has a personal perspective on accomplishments and failures, promises and needs, continuities to be cu