Durkheim uses the concepts of culture and social structure to explain variations in suicide rates between different groups. Sociological investigations seek social-structure models of influences on suicide, including family, culture, religion, occupation, socioeconomic class, and groups or organiza...

Social Gambling: Social Anomie Rather Than Societal Remedy? Eric Coleman Department of Sociology Furman University Social gambling has been around since 1607, where it was first seen at the Jamestown settlement. Until this day, social gambling is still one of the most influential fact...

Introduction Increasingly nursing is recognizing the significance of the family to the health and well being of individual family members (wright &Leahey, 2000). Hatrick (1998) suggests family nursing in undergraduate nursing education will provide nurses with theoretical and practical skills t...