by sustainablesociety | Feb 11, 2019 | Social Science, Sociology
Health as a Social Lens. In this second comment, I hope to do justice to Graham’s work here, and I urge you to read the book. Yes, indeed it does get a bit technical in places, but persevere! The first chapter of ‘Sociology, Health and the Fractured Society: A...
by sustainablesociety | Jan 23, 2019 | Politics
Photo by Chris Lawton on Unsplash For God, Harry and St George? Nationalism, Authoritarianism and Fascism in England. When Nigel Farage talks about ‘picking up a rifle’ if Brexit is not delivered, do you cheer along with his audience? When the Queen is on the telly,...
by sustainablesociety | Jan 15, 2019 | Politics
On wavers of flags and shrouds. (Photo by Matt Briney on Unsplash) It feels as if this ‘blessed plot, this realm’, this encrusted blood soaked earth, is being shaken from beneath my feet. Those who are doing the undermining, appear to me as wide eyed frothing mouthed...
by sustainablesociety | Jan 9, 2019 | Health, Philosophy, Social Science, Sociology
Sociology, Health and the Fractured Society: A critical realist account.Graham Scambler, (2018) Routledge. London. I have been following Graham’s work for quite some time now in my role as a Nurse Educator and interested sociologist. I have used some of his...
by sustainablesociety | Nov 29, 2018 | Health, Politics
Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash The neoliberal ideology of health care provision. ‘The problem with the NHS is not one of resources. Rather it is the system remains centrally run, state monopoly designed over half a century ago” (Direct Democracy p74). Amid the junior...
