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What’s Wrong with the Biologization of Social Inequalities in Health? A History of Social Epidemiology and Its Moral Economy of Objectivity
The “omics” sciences might provide a biological foundation for epidemiological approaches that have previously been limited to highlighting the...
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How the Social Gets Under the Skin: From the Social as Signal to Society as a Metabolic Milieu
Inflammation has risen to the forefront of biomedical research into many chronic diseases prevalent in industrialized countries, including mental,...
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Epidemiology and Health
Epidemiology is the study of how diseases are distributed among different groups of people and the factors that affect this distribution. Accurately...
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The Burden of Teenage Alcohol Consumption in Andhra Pradesh State, India—Epidemiology and Social Context
AimTo determine the prevalence and factors that predict alcohol consumption behavior among teenagers in Andhra Pradesh state, India.
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Which Integration for Health? Comparing Integrative Approaches for Epidemiology
The emergence of integrative approaches to the study of population health and the environment has yielded several new concepts, framing relations...
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Qualitative social network analysis: studying the field through the bibliographic approach
This paper presents the results of a study on the development of qualitative social network analysis (QSNA) and its evolution over time, using the...
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Social media-based social–psychological community resilience analysis of five countries on COVID-19
Community resilience (CR) has been studied as an indicator to measure how well a given community copes with and recovers from a given disaster....
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Epidemiologists’ ambivalence towards the epigenetics of social adversity
This article studies how social epidemiologists get involved in research carried out on rodent models to explore the biological pathways underpinning...
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Evolutionary Roots of Occupational Burnout: Social Rank and Belonging
Occupational burnout is a globally pandemic public health concern, exerting high costs on organizations, consumers, and workers. Amid definitional...
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The Exposome and the Social Sciences: The Case of Systemic Diseases
This chapter discusses the challenges of an epistemological pluralism. It assesses the tensions internal to the exposome as part of a longer history...
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Social Value During a Pandemic: Insights from Brazil
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is undeniably the most serious health crisis the world has known since the Great Influenza of 1918. In the case of...
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Using Public Health Law and Legal Epidemiology to Respond to Child Maltreatment
Child maltreatment confronts scientists, policymakers and clinicians with diverse challenges across domains of prevention, identification, and...
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Social Status, Social Relations, and Health
This chapter summarizes the current state of research on social status, social relations, and health. The focus is on two questions: (1) Is there...
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Social Relations, Social Capital, and Social Networks: A Conceptual Classification
Social relations lie at the core of sociology; they are basically its framework. Without social relations, no social interactions develop. The study...
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Network toxicity analysis: an information-theoretic approach to studying the social dynamics of online toxicity
The rise of social media has corresponded with an increase in the prevalence and severity of online toxicity. While much work has gone into...
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What’s an Expert, and Why? A comment on Christian Dayé, Experts, Social Scientists, and Techniques of Prognosis in Cold War America
Christian Dayé’s new book, Experts, Social Scientists, and Techniques of Prognosis in Cold War America (2020), recounts the development of a set of...
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Exposure to the troubles in Northern Ireland, memory functioning, and social activity engagement: results from NICOLA
We investigated the potential impact of a cohort traumatic exposure, the Troubles in Northern Ireland, on memory functioning in later life, and the...
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Deindustrialization, social disintegration, and health: a neoclassical sociological approach
Deindustrialization is a major burden on workers’ health in many countries, calling for theoretically informed sociological analysis. Here, we...
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The Continuity of the Social Sciences During COVID-19: Sociology and Interdisciplinarity in Pandemic Times
I argue that the COVID-19 pandemic presents an opportunity for sociologists and other social scientists to focus their scholarship on this apparently...
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Epidemiology and an Epistemic Evaluation of the Management of COVID-19 in Nigeria
The aim of this chapter is to propose a plausible paradigm for the management of pandemics, using Nigeria in the wake of COVID-19, as a case study....