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- PhD Sociology University of Alabama
- Masters Sociology University of Alabama
- Bachelors Sociology University of Alabama
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Published Works
- Health Lifestyle Theory and the Convergence of Agency and Structure∗ (2005) (779)
- The Social Determinants of Chronic Disease. (2017) (276)
- Aging and perceived health status. (1983) (245)
- Social Causes of Health and Disease (2007) (239)
- Conceptualizing contemporary health lifestyles : Moving beyond Weber (1997) (226)
- Socioeconomic status and health among the aged in the United States and Germany: a comparative cross-sectional study. (2003) (221)
- Health lifestyles in Russia. (2000) (212)
- The social determinants of the decline of life expectancy in Russia and eastern Europe: a lifestyle explanation. (1997) (209)
- The Military: More Than Just a Job? (1990) (179)
- Health and Social Change in Russia and Eastern Europe (1999) (168)
- Psychological distress, gender, and health lifestyles in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine. (2006) (158)
- The Blackwell companion to medical sociology (2001) (129)
- Social class, Mexican culture, and fatalism: Their effects on psychological distress (1983) (123)
- Health lifestyles in Russia and the socialist heritage. (2002) (108)
- Uncovering the mystery: factors of African American suicide. (2003) (103)
- MAX WEBER, FORMAL RATIONALITY, AND HEALTH LIFESTYLES (1993) (101)
- Sociology of Mental Disorder (2020) (98)
- Concepts of health, illness, and disease : a comparative perspective (1988) (72)
- Bourdieu and an Update of Health Lifestyle Theory (2013) (72)
- Predicting Physician Utilization (1983) (70)
- Ready to die: a postmodern interpretation of the increase of African-American adolescent male suicide. (2002) (70)
- The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior and Society (2014) (67)
- Social stratification and self-management of health. (1986) (67)
- The defining moment: children's conceptualization of race and experiences with racial discrimination (2011) (60)
- Russia's Torn Safety Nets: Health and Social Welfare During the Transition (2001) (60)
- Lifestyle or Lebensführung? Critical Remarks on the Mistranslation of Weber's “Class, Status, Party” (1993) (60)
- Symptoms, beliefs, and the use of physician services among the disadvantaged. (1983) (59)
- Health lifestyles and political ideology in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. (2006) (57)
- Health and social change: a critical theory (2004) (56)
- The social gradient in life expectancy: the contrary case of Okinawa in Japan. (2000) (55)
- A test of the relationship between race, socioeconomic status, and psychological distress. (1990) (54)
- Health lifestyles and the absence of the Russian middle class. (2007) (51)
- A critical approach to lifestyle and health (2002) (50)
- Health lifestyles in central Asia: the case of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. (2004) (50)
- This Aging Society (1991) (46)
- The role of social support and social context on the incidence of attempted suicide among adolescents living in extremely impoverished communities. (2015) (44)
- Parents'/guardians' willingness to vaccinate their children against genital herpes. (2005) (40)
- Social stratification and health lifestyles in two systems of health care delivery: a comparison of the United States and West Germany. (1988) (40)
- The Word as Scalpel: A History of Medical Sociology (2004) (40)
- Patterns of alcohol and multiple drug use among rural white and American Indian adolescents. (1977) (38)
- The specter of post-communism: women and alcohol in eight post-Soviet states. (2009) (38)
- The intersection of life expectancy and gender in a transitional state: the case of Russia. (2012) (37)
- The state of medical sociology in the United States, Great Britain, West Germany and Austria: applied vs pure theory. (1983) (37)
- Psychological distress, perceived health status, and physician utilization in America and West Germany. (1988) (35)
- Okinawa: an exception to the social gradient of life expectancy in Japan. (2001) (35)
- Drinking attitudes and practices among Wind River Reservation Indian youth. (1975) (34)
- Dictionary of medical sociology (1997) (32)
- On concern with appearance, health beliefs, and eating habits: a reappraisal comparing Americans and West Germans. (1988) (32)
- Drug use among white and American Indian high school youth. (1976) (32)
- Psychological distress and dietary patterns in eight post-Soviet republics (2009) (31)
- A Comparison of Black and White Racial Differences in Health Lifestyles and Cardiovascular Disease. (2017) (30)
- Symptoms, social stratification and self-responsibility for health in the United States and West Germany. (1986) (29)
- Health Systems in the European Union: Diversity, Convergence, and Integration (1995) (29)
- Attitudes toward the Police among White and Native American Youth (1975) (28)
- The global society : an introduction to sociology (1995) (28)
- Medical Sociology on the Move: New Directions in Theory (2013) (28)
- Medical Sociology on the Move (2013) (27)
- Attitudes Toward Land-Use Planning and Controlled Population Growth in Jackson Hole (1977) (26)
- Health and Globalization (2010) (24)
- Health Lifestyles in Late Middle Age (2019) (20)
- Health Lifestyles: Bringing Structure Back (2009) (18)
- A Note on the Fate of Postmodern Theory and its Failure to Meet the Basic Requirements for Success in Medical Sociology (2007) (18)
- Drinking patterns in the American Deep South. (1999) (17)
- New directions in health lifestyle research (2007) (17)
- Health lifestyles in Ukraine (2005) (17)
- Quantifying Habitus: Future Directions (2009) (16)
- Health lifestyle theory in an Asian context (2006) (15)
- Health lifestyles and social class in the deep South (2002) (15)
- Sociological theory in medical sociology in the early twenty-first century (2013) (15)
- Minor Ailments and Illness Behavior Among Physicians (1980) (15)
- The Sociocultural Context of Sport and Health: Problems of Causal Relations and Structural Interdependence (1996) (14)
- Obedience to Orders: Issues of Morality and Legality in Combat among U.S. Army Paratroopers (1980) (12)
- Medical Sociology and Sociological Theory (2007) (12)
- Society of Risk-Takers: Living Life on the Edge (2005) (12)
- The Social Construction of Gender and Race (2020) (12)
- Medical Sociology at the Millennium (2000) (12)
- Health lifestyles and the search for a concept of a gender-specific habitus (2018) (11)
- Community Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (2017) (11)
- Self-rated health and barriers to healthcare in Ukraine: The pivotal role of gender and its intersections (2017) (10)
- Educational Attainment and Dietary Lifestyles (2017) (10)
- The Global Society (1994) (10)
- Life chance characteristics of older users of Swedish massage. (2005) (10)
- Civil Commitment, Burden of Proof, and Dangerous Acts: A Comparison of the Perspectives of Judges and Psychiatrists (1977) (10)
- Health Lifestyles (2021) (10)
- HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS AND THE PEOPLE: A FIVE-NATION STUDY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION (1994) (10)
- Max Weber: Bureaucracy, Formal Rationality and the Modern Hospital (2015) (9)
- A comparison of marijuana use among Mexican-American and Anglo rural youth utilizing a matched-set analysis. (1983) (9)
- Post-Communism and Female Tobacco Consumption in the Former Soviet States (2009) (9)
- Drinking patterns of institutionalized and noninstitutionalized Wyoming youth. (1975) (8)
- Open School vs. Traditional School: Self-Identification among Native American and White Adolescents. (1976) (8)
- Class Matters: Health Lifestyles in Post-Soviet Russia (2006) (8)
- Health lifestyles and self-direction in employment among American men: a test of the spillover effect. (1989) (7)
- Theories of Social Capital (2020) (7)
- The Emerging Crisis in American Female Longevity (2014) (7)
- The Rise of Theory in Medical Sociology (2013) (6)
- Alcohol use and psychological distress: a comparison of Americans and West Germans. (1989) (6)
- Sociological Theories of Health and Illness (2020) (5)
- Health as a Social Problem (2004) (5)
- Factors that predict the use or non-use of virtual dissection by high school biology teachers (2001) (4)
- A Comparison of Psychological Distress in America and West Germany (1988) (4)
- Readings in Medical Sociology (2000) (4)
- The "Token" Minority (1978) (4)
- Understanding the Russian Health Crisis: a Sociological Perspective (2009) (4)
- Health Lifestyle Theory (2017) (4)
- Life Chance Characteristics of Older Swedish Massage Therapy Users and Former Users (2005) (3)
- Volunteering for Foreign Combat Missions (1981) (3)
- The sociology of health in the United States: recent theoretical contributions. (2014) (3)
- Current Directions in Medical Sociology (2012) (3)
- Doctors and the BMA: A case study in collective action (1981) (3)
- PAs in a changing society: a sociologic perspective. (2015) (3)
- Causal relationships and sociocultural contexts between sport and health. (1993) (3)
- Theoretical Approaches to Research on the Social Determinants of Obesity. (2022) (3)
- Green Berets and the Symbolic Meaning of Heroism (1979) (2)
- Social Stratification, Health Welfare and Health Culture A contribution to class-specific integration of the welfare state (1988) (2)
- Madness and Society (2019) (2)
- Welfare, Choice, and Solidarity in Transition: Reforming the Health Sector in Eastern Europe. By János Kornai and Karen Eggieston. Frederico Caffè Lectures. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xiv, 365 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Figures. Tables. $65.00, hard bound. (2003) (2)
- Sociology of mental disorder / William C. Cockerham (2003) (2)
- Interactional Considerations In Studying American "Indians" The Case Of Adolescent Self-Esteem* (1979) (2)
- Political ideology and pandemic lifestyles: the indirect effects of empathy, authoritarianism, and threat (2022) (2)
- Health sociology in a globalizing world (2011) (2)
- Types of Mental Disorders (2020) (1)
- Readings in medical sociology (2nd edition) (2001) (1)
- Social Stress and Health (2017) (1)
- Illness Behavior and the Sick Role (2021) (1)
- Medical Sociology and Its Changing Subfields (2021) (1)
- Health Behavior and Lifestyles (2015) (1)
- THE SOCIOLOGY OF MEDICINE (1995) (1)
- Biomedicine and Alternative Healing Systems in America: Issues of Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Gender. By Hans A. Baer. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. Pp. xii + 222. $21.95 (paper). (2002) (1)
- The Green Beret Reservist and His Attitudes toward Civil Disorder (1975) (1)
- Medical Practice and Social Protest@@@The Cultural Crisis of Modern Medicine.@@@The Economics of Medical Malpractice.@@@Medical Power and Medical Ethics. (1980) (1)
- Medical education and the American healthcare system (2009) (1)
- The Whole Is Not Greater than the Sum of its Parts, But Some of the Parts Are Pretty Darn Good!@@@Jobs and Work.@@@Environments and Organizations@@@Political Sociology@@@Trends in Family Sociology@@@The Sociology of Education@@@Sociology of Religion@@@The Sociology of Science@@@Medical Sociology@@@M (1989) (1)
- The Cure: A Story of Cancer and Politics From the Annals of the Cold War (2002) (0)
- A hole in our thinking: a response to Scambler’s ‘Health inequalities’ (2012) (0)
- Obesity-Related Health Lifestyles of Late-Middle Age Black Americans: The Jackson Heart Study. (2022) (0)
- Health Care Delivery System: Russia (2014) (0)
- Taming oblivion: aging bodies and the fear of senility in Japan: John W. Traphagen; State University of New York Press, Albany, 2000, pp., 225 Price $20.95 paper back (2001) (0)
- The International Library of Critical Writings in Sociology.@@@The Sociology of the Environment, vols. 1, 2, and 3.@@@The Sociology of Development, vols. 1 and 2.@@@The Sociology of Religion, vols. 1 and 2.@@@The Sociology of Medicine.@@@Economic Sociology. (1996) (0)
- Health Lifestyle Theory in a Changing Society: The Rise of Infectious Diseases and Digitalization. (2023) (0)
- Book Reviews (1997) (0)
- Book Reviews (2009) (0)
- Fundamental Cause Theory (2020) (0)
- The Social Demography of Health: Gender, Age, and Race (2015) (0)
- PTSD: A Short History. By Allan V. Horwitz. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Pp. xv+256. $28.95 (paper). (2020) (0)
- The Sick Role (2017) (0)
- Medicine and Health (2019) (0)
- Doctor–Patient Interaction (2017) (0)
- Acknowledgment of reviewers (1991) (0)
- United States, Health System of (2008) (0)
- Social Epidemiology (2021) (0)
- A Contextual Analysis of Multi-Racial Patterns of Alcohol and Drug Problems (2011) (0)
- Mental Disorder and the Law (2016) (0)
- Globalization and the Transformation of Disease and Healthcare (2012) (0)
- Mental Disorder as Deviant Social Behavior (2020) (0)
- Choosing the President (The American Assembly, Columbia University). (1975) (0)
- Stressful Life Events and Their Contexts.@@@Symptoms, Illness Behavior, and Help-Seeking. (1983) (0)
- Mental Disorder in the People's Republic of China (1984) (0)
- Women's Health in Post-Soviet Russia: The Politics of Intervention. By Michele Rivkin-Fish. New Andiropologies of Europe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. xiv, 253 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $50.00, hard bound. $21.95, paper. (2007) (0)
- OBSOLETE: Health System of the United States (2019) (0)
- Mental Disorder (1957) (0)
- MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY (1941) (0)
- Clausewitz's Concept of CPV (Culminating Point of Victory) in the North African Campaigns of Rommel and Montgomery (1987) (0)
- Informal Healthcare in Contemporary Russia: Sociographic Essays on the Post-Soviet Infrastructure for Alternative Healing Practices. By Yulia Krasheninnikova. trans. Julia Kazantseva. Stuttgart: ibidemVerlag, 2017. 281 pp. Appendices. References. Tables. €39.90, paper. (2019) (0)
- Dr. Golem: How to Think About Medicine (review) (2008) (0)
- Reply to Thornton and Marsh-Thornton (1976) (0)
- Books Received (2010) (0)
- Mental Disorder: Social Epidemiology (2016) (0)
- The Stress Process (2020) (0)
- Classical Theory (2020) (0)
- The Social Demography of Health: Social Class (2015) (0)
- Medical Sociology and the Rise of Theory (2020) (0)
- Health lifestyles and the search for a concept of a gender-specific habitus (2017) (0)
- Health Systems: United States, Health System of the (2017) (0)
- Help-Seeking Behavior and the Prepatient Experience (2020) (0)
- Chapter 6: Health and Social Stratification (1995) (0)
- Comprar Social Causes of Health and Disease | William Cockerham | 9780745635880 | Wiley (2008) (0)
- How to Grade Handbook Articles@@@Jobs and Work.@@@Environments and Organizations@@@Political Sociology@@@Trends in Family Sociology@@@The Sociology of Education@@@Sociology of Religion@@@The Sociology of Science@@@Medical Sociology@@@Mass Media Institutions (1989) (0)
- Acting Mentally Disordered (2020) (0)
- Journey to Postmodernism (2020) (0)
- Health and Health Care in the New Russia [Book Review] (2009) (0)
- 1 Medical Sociology and Sociological Theory (0)
- Patienthood in Institutions (2020) (0)
- Comprar The Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology | William C. Cockerham | 9780631217039 | Wiley (2008) (0)
- Mental Disorder: Social Class (2016) (0)
- The Social Demography of Health (2021) (0)
- Health Care Reform and Health Policy in the United States (2017) (0)
- International Law and Global Health (2014) (0)
- Gender roles and changing patterns of mental health (2012) (0)
- The COVID-19 Reader (2020) (0)
- Mental Disorder: Age, Gender, and Marital Status (2016) (0)
- Health, Blaxter Mildred. Polity Press (2004), (168pp., NPL paperback) (2005) (0)
- Global Health Care (2015) (0)
- Changing Patterns of Female Smoking: A Comparison of Workers and Full-Time Homemakers by Class, Race, and Community Type (2017) (0)
- Sociological theory in medical sociology in the early twenty-first century (2013) (0)
- MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY (1941) (0)
- Index to Volume V (1977) (1977) (0)
- Origin of Medical Sociology (2020) (0)
- A hole in our thinking: a response to Scambler's 'Health inequalities'. (2012) (0)
- Symbolic Interaction and Labeling Theory (2020) (0)
- Mental Disorder Out of the Closet@@@Sociology of Mental Disorder.@@@The Sociology of Mental Illness.@@@The Sociology of Mental Illness: Basic Studies. (1982) (0)
- Deflecting a postmodernist critique (2009) (0)
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) (2017) (0)
- Not By Bread Alone: Social Support in the New Russia. By Melissa L. Caldwell. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. xvi, 242 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. $55.00, hard bound. $21.95, paper. (2005) (0)
- The Physician in a Changing Society (2017) (0)
- Community Care and Public Policy (2020) (0)
- The Medical Profession and Medicalization (2020) (0)
- Mental Disorder and Public Policy in Selected Countries (2016) (0)
- Life Course Theory (2020) (0)
- Classical Theory Comes to Medical Sociology@@@Sociological Theory and Medical Sociology. (1989) (0)
- Nurses, Physician Assistants, Pharmacists, and Midwives (2017) (0)
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