Roslyn Wallach Bologh

• The Graduate Center, CUNY

Abstract The treatment of the body as a tiling separate from the social self is made the object of inquiry. The implications of this separation are explored as follows: (1) The failure on the part of the medical profession to treat differences in morbidity and mortality rates due to social class, occupation and environment as an object of medical c...

Abstract Students of the effects of life change events on health have asked for studies in which single, desirable, life events that are appropriate to the life stage of the population sampled are examined in relation to health status. We do this with a single event — romantic involvement — that moves through a number of phases. We found in our col...

This paper offers a critique of postmodernism as it attempts to become a metatheory for the politics of difference or identity politics, and of postmodernism's tendency to conflate Marxism or dialectics with modernism. In contrast we distinguish between modernism, postmodernism, and a dialectical tradition that offers an alternative to both. We arg...

A theory for the dynamics of institutional bias is presented. It is shown that the degree of bias against minorities displayed by the institution can be quite different from the bias of the individuals that comprise the institution. The institutional bias is a sensitive function of the number of steps of approval required for membership in the inst...

The impact on 357 newly licensed pharmacists, graduates of two colleges, of efforts to turn pharmacy into a clinical profession, was examined by way of a self-administered questionnaire. Perceptions and expectations about work, differences in consulting practices, relationship between practice and attitudes, and the presence or absence of an identi...

Häufig wird Max Weber als der Theoretiker der bürokratischen Rationalität betrachtet. Er beschreibt die wesentlichen Bedingungen, die die bürokratische Organisation von anderen historischen Formen der Verwaltung, besonders der patriarchalischen und patrimonialen, unterscheiden. Die bürokratische Herrschaft scheint auf Grund dieses impliziten Vergle...

We obtained preferences from 227 college students about the characteristics of their ideal love objects. We factor analyzed these separately for males and females and obtained both common and sex-specific factors. We then examined the relative contributions of a set of structural and family factors to the explanation of variance in each of the char...

Summary The humorous themes of over 300 comic get well cards are analyzed to reveal sources of tension or strain in the patient role. The author uses a model of alienation as a way of categorizing these themes. Corresponding to the four aspects of alienated labor as specified by Marx, alienation in the patient role is divided into the following fou...