Jonathan B Imber
Biographic Data
| ID | 140612 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan B Imber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan B |
| FAMILY NAME | Imber |
| SIGNATURE | IMBER J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wellesley College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9532-0776 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Bioethics, Suffering, and the Culture Wars
This article provides an analysis of the enduring disagreements among bioethicists over the divide between secular and religious boundaries that are reflected in liberal, libertarian, and conservative approaches to medicine as a profession and vocation. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the most authoritative voices to address the problem of suffering were Protestants, Strict Calvinists, hydropaths, and homeopaths. Other religious and me…
Constructive Sociological Theory: Forgotten Legacy of Thomas G. Masaryk
Thomas G. Masaryk was founding and first president of the State of Czechoslovakia. He was also a dissident charter member of the theoretical vanguard that established modern sociology in the nineteenth century. Many social scientists are aware of Masaryk's political role, but do not know about his significant contributions to sociology. With the publication of this book, Imber and Woolfolk hope to restore Masaryk to his rightful place in history …
Society's Books of Note: May/June 2020
Searching for Science Policy
Government, business, and universities are producers, consumers, and often arbiters of scientific research and the findings of such research ought to provide an important baseline to the formation of public policy in all sectors. Nevertheless, the communication to the larger public of what scientists do and know is a problem inherent to all democratic societies. Scientific truth cannot be put to a vote and the prerogative of democratic societies …
In search of the Nonprofit Sector
At a time when boundaries between the nonprofit, business, and public sectors have grown increasingly confused and contested, this volume by leading experts on nonprofit organizations offers new ideas and frameworks for understanding the terrain that lies between the state and the market. chapters span a broad range of emerging issues including nonprofit commercialism, sector-bending hybrid organizational forms, increasingly sophisticated nonprof…
How Navigating Uncertainty Motivates Trust in Medicine
Three significant factors in the shaping of modern medicine contribute to broad perceptions about trust in the patient-physician relationship: moral, professional, and epidemiological uncertainty. Trusting a physician depends first on trusting a person, then trusting a person's skills and training, and finally trusting the science that underwrites those skills. This essay, in part based on my book, Trusting Doctors: The Decline of Moral Authority…
The Revolt Against Dualism: An Inquiry Concerning the Existence of Ideas
The Revolt Against Dualism, first published in 1930, belongs to a tradition in philosophical theorizing that Arthur O. Lovejoy called "descriptive epistemology." Lovejoy's principal aim in this book is to clarify the distinction between the quite separate phenomena of the knower and the known, something regularly obvious to common sense, if not always to intellectual understanding. This work is as much an argument about the ineluctable difference…
Searching for Science Policy
The Discomfitures of Academic Life
The Etiquette of Pluralism
Philip Rieff and Fellow Teachers
Forty-Five Years of Society
Philip Rieff: A personal remembrance
Ambition, vocation, and sociology
"The "Doe effect
Scientific endeavor, professional aims & public interests
Doubting culture wars
Other-Directed Rebels
The purpose of this symposium, as I understand it, is to address the implications for the discipline and profession of sociology of their association with various political and social movements. My specific interest in this question centers on how sociology as a teaching discipline and as a professional activity beyond its teaching functions has fared in relation to the ambitions of social science generally. particular, what is the promise of soc…
"American sexual morality after "that woman
Ferment in professional associations
The Meaning of Culture: Moving the Postmodern Critique Forward
The ethos of social science
Books in review
Editor’s column the future of sociology: Coda
Editor’s column sociology in public: Two snapshots
Fieldwork in Elite Settings: Introduction
The Revolt Against Dualism: An Inquiry Concerning the Existence of Ideas
The Revolt Against Dualism, first published in 1930, belongs to a tradition in philosophical theorizing that Arthur O. Lovejoy called "descriptive epistemology." Lovejoy's principal aim in this book is to clarify the distinction between the quite separate phenomena of the knower and the known, something regularly obvious to common sense, if not always to intellectual understanding. This work is as much an argument about the ineluctable difference…
Ambition, vocation, and sociology
Other-Directed Rebels
The purpose of this symposium, as I understand it, is to address the implications for the discipline and profession of sociology of their association with various political and social movements. My specific interest in this question centers on how sociology as a teaching discipline and as a professional activity beyond its teaching functions has fared in relation to the ambitions of social science generally. particular, what is the promise of soc…
Philip Rieff and Fellow Teachers
Ferment in professional associations
Editor’s column the future of sociology: Coda
The vocation of Kurt H. Wolff: Reflections on critical subjectivity in sociology
The Social Production of Scientific Knowledge
Sociology and Abortion: Legacies and Strategies
A survey essay sees the sociological view of abortion practice in 1979 appearing as a dense web of philosophical conundrums and at times violent political strategies; with abortion still not typically seen as 1 form of birth control among others. Attention is called to the variety of approaches to abortion in books and articles about its medical, demographic, religious, historical, political, philosophical, psychological, practical, and personal …
Abortion and the Equality of Reasons
Book reviewed in this article: A Private Choice: Abortion in America in the Seventies. By John T. Noonan, Jr. Aborting America. By Bernard N. Nathanson, M.D., with Richard N. Ostling
Brain Death: Interrelated Medical and Social Issues
International Relations and Politics
Social Science as Moral Inquiry
The vocation of reason: Wallace Stevens and Edmund Husserl
The Abortion Problem as Doctors See It
Book reviewed in this article: Abortion and the Private Practice of Medicine. By Jonathan B. Imber
Ethical Elites: Artificial Reproduction in Great Britain
What Is Exemplary
Abortion and the Private Practice of Medicine
Sociology
Vietnam Requiem
The Future of Abortion Politics
Sociology
Abortion policy and medical practice
The Feeling Intellect: Selected Writings
Collected here for the first time, these writings demonstrate the range and precision of Philip Rieff's sociology of culture. Rieff addresses the rise of psychoanalytic and other spiritual disciplines that have reshaped contemporary culture
Social Forms/Human Capacities: Essays in Authority and Difference
Part 1 Instead of an introduction: Doing Mythologies (1984). Part 2 Essays: the sociology of a subject, dichotomy is contradiction feudal relics or capatilist monuments (1977) addenda - extended review of a Macfarlane (1980) origins of English individualism on moral regulation (1980) towards a celebration of difference (1981) in/forming schooling (1983) the body of intellectuals (1986) social forms/human capacities (1988). Part 3 Interlude: metho…
Into the Valley: Death and the Socialization of Medical Students
A thematic and theoretical overview mercy hospital the anticipation of anatomy lab anatomy lab meeting ambiguous man the cadaver as a future self Mr. Kilwauski discussion. Appendix: comments of methodology
Fieldwork in Elite Settings: Introduction
Studying Elites Using Qualitative Methods
The very nature of elites makes them difficult for social researchers to study. This volume provides valuable insights into how researchers can successfully gain access to elite settings. Using their actual experiences, the contributors provide constructive advice as well as cautionary tales about how they learned to manoeuvre and become accepted in worlds otherwise closed to them
The future of sociology: The editor’s inaugural statement
The well-informed citizen: Alfred Schutz and applied theory
Editor’s column: Autobiography among sociologists
Arthur O. Lovejoy andThe Revolt against Dualism
Sociology (40 works) · Political science (33 works) · Philosophy (22 works) · Epistemology (18 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Social science (14 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works)