Connection sociology

Fox, Nick J., and Katie J. Ward. Pharma in the Bedroom. .. and the Kitchen.. .. The Pharmaceuticalisation of Daily Life. Sociology of Health and Illness 30, no. 6 (September 2008) 856-868. The authors use two terms to describe the growing use of prescription drugs. The first term, domestication of pharmaceutical use, refers to use of drugs for private, domestic activities such as sex. The second term, pharmaceuticalization of daily life, refers to the use of drug to deal with everyday problems. The authors see these changes as closely connected to the economics and politics of the pharmaceutical industry. 

Philosophical, Cognitive, and Sociological Roots for Connections in Chemistry Teaching and Learning... 

An alternative to assimilation is to make clear to students that they may cross the sociological border into science with their cultural identity both intact and, perhaps, valued. This is a specific goal of the work of Middlecamp and Subramaniam (1999). Within the biological sciences, including gender as a specific component of course content is a more obvious move than in chemistry (Birke 2001). There are more studies in which a connection of chemistry to sociology occurs through the lens of race and ethnicity, for example, in the Project Inclusion work of Hayes and Perez (1997) and the multicultural examples developed by Middlecamp and Fernandez (1999). 

The sociological view focuses on social networks and connections in terms of product quality. 

The divisions of micro and macro in physics, economics, and sociology have been supplemented by economists s addition of the concept of meso, thus establishing a micro-meso-macro framework. The three levels of the framework are obviously inter-related and connected, although the micro level is in some sense fundamental. 

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