Prior to the 20 th Century, one of the most common ways of seeing the world was through the lens of stratification, which is the idea that the natural world comes in different scales or layers. For ...

The Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) financially penalizes hospitals with high readmission rates. In fiscal year 2019 the program was changed to account for the association ...

Vol. 74, Extra Issue: Current of Thought: Sociology of Education at the Dawn of the 21st Century (2001), pp. 169-177 (9 pages) Sociology of Education (SOE) provides a forum for studies in the ...

For a student of sociology, understanding stratification means looking beyond individual stories to see the structures that shape them. It is about recognising that inequality is not just about ...

Acta Sociologica publishes papers on high-quality innovative sociology, carried out from different theoretical and methodological starting points, in the form of full-length original articles and ...

Identifying which patients are likely to benefit from care coordination is important. We evaluated the performance of 6 risk-screening instruments in predicting healthcare utilization. All adults ...

When reflecting on how to move our conversation forward, I was struck by the need to both acknowledge the progress made thus far and thank the many airmen, past and present, who have taken the time to ...

Fascinated by how human groups function? Then a sociology degree may be for you! Sociology is the systematic study of the development, interaction, and behavior of organized human groups. Sociological ...