Social Change

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Just do your job": technology, bureaucracy, and the eclipse of conscience in contemporary medicine. 
  • Age-specific mortality trends in France and Italy since 1900: period and cohort effects. 
  • Ageing, status politics and sociological theory. 
  • Application of a partnership model for transformative and sustainable international development. 
  • Children in dark times. 
  • Children in dark times: a year of silent emergency. 
  • Chronic stress and social changes: socioeconomic determination of chronic stress. 
  • Contraceptive use in a changing service environment: evidence from Indonesia during the economic crisis. 
  • Decomposing change in life expectancy: a bouquet of formulas in honor of Nathan Keyfitz's 90th birthday. 
  • Depressed parents and their children. General health, social, and psychiatric problems. 
  • Enhancement and the ethics of development. 
  • Expanding the visibility of women's work: policy implications. 
  • Fertility of rural China: effects of local family planning and health programs. 
  • Flight from autonomy: problems of social change on an adolescent inpatient unit. 
  • From theory to practice: translating research into health outcomes. 
  • Individual differences are accentuated during periods of social change: the sample case of girls at puberty. 
  • Industrialized health care and midcareer crises. 
  • Inequality, discrimination, and the power of the status quo: Direct evidence for a motivation to see the way things are as the way they should be. 
  • Integrative health coaching for patients with type 2 diabetes: a randomized clinical trial. 
  • Introduction to the Special Issue of Brain, Behavior, and Immunity: Gender, Ethnicity and Immunity: the new frontier. 
  • Judging the past. The case of the human radiation experiments. 
  • Latin America and the challenge of globalizing the history of sexuality. 
  • Loving those who justify inequality: the effects of system threat on attraction to women who embody benevolent sexist ideals. 
  • Military Medicine of the Russo-Japanese War and its Influence on the Modernization of the US Army Medical Department. 
  • Modernization and consanguineous marriage in Beirut. 
  • Modernization and status of the aged: international correlations. 
  • Nepali concepts of psychological trauma: the role of idioms of distress, ethnopsychology and ethnophysiology in alleviating suffering and preventing stigma. 
  • Peer contagion in interventions for children and adolescents: moving towards an understanding of the ecology and dynamics of change. 
  • Protected Areas' Impacts on Brazilian Amazon Deforestation: Examining Conservation-Development Interactions to Inform Planning. 
  • Psychosocial precursors of hypertension: a review of the epidemiologic evidence. 
  • Public health law in India: a framework for its application as a tool for social change. 
  • Recognizing psychiatric symptoms in black Americans. 
  • Rising U.S. income inequality and the changing gradient of socioeconomic status on physical functioning and activity limitations, 1984-2007. 
  • Sex and gender in psychoneuroimmunology research: past, present and future. 
  • Should age-period-cohort studies return to the methodologies of the 1970s? 
  • Stability and change in the perceived social support of older Taiwanese adults. 
  • Taming the wilderness: the lifestyle improvement movement in rural Japan, 1925-1965. 
  • The Tuskegee Legacy Project: history, preliminary scientific findings, and unanticipated societal benefits. 
  • The nurse as social entrepreneur: revisiting our roots and raising our voices. 
  • Treatment decisions for terminally ill patients: physicians' legal defensiveness and knowledge of medical law. 
  • Use of ECT in the United States in 1975, 1980, and 1986. 
  • We need to understand "change + human beings = transitions". 
  • When agendas collide: human welfare and biological conservation. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Attarian, David Edward, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedics
  • Sigal, Peter, Professor in the Department of History, History
  • Vaisey, Stephen, Professor of Sociology, Duke Population Research Center