This book examines the spiritual community of the followers of St. Francis of Wounds in the town of Canindé in northeast Brazil. Their tradition involves pilgrimage and the practice of crafting unique offerings in payment for healing and reversal of bad fortune--a practice predating Christianity and brought to the new world by explorers and early European colonial powers. King argues that these marginalized Brazilians, living in a region where poverty is endemic, use St. Francis of Wounds to replace the medical and social services that the government has failed to provide. She further illustrates the evolution of the regional practice with photographs documenting all stages of this tradition, especially the folk art ex-votos used to pay for the saint's intervention. / https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1200/thumbnail.jpg

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One recent trend in medicine has been a redefinition of chronic illness. Whereas formerly chronic illness referred to a disease “which is progressive, steadily or with remissions, towards severe crippling or death,” it is now defined as a “long-term disease which might be cured if given adequate prolonged treatment or which might remit for long periods after treatment, enabling the patient to return to worth while living.” Coupled with this new perspective has been the development of the therapeutic community which calls for the treatment of the patient as a 'total individual' and not simply as a personified diagnosis.

The basic aim of this study is to describe the existing formal associations of West Indian immigrants in Montreal. This involves presenting first, information on the types of West Indian associations present in Montreal in terms of their ideology and goals, plus information on their organizational structure, hierarchy of offices end roles, formalization of authority and activities, membership base and recruitment policies. Secondly this involves describing the activities of these associations in terms of how these activities meet the needs of West Indian immigrants in Montreal, on the individual and the group level; and how these associations are the expression of divisive or cohesive forces in the West Indian immigrant group itself.

This work presents the results of an exploratory study of interpersonal persuasion. As such, this thesis does not offer rigorous proofs for any hypotheses concerning the nature of persuasion. What it does offer is a certain amount of descriptive data on interpersonal persuasion as it occurs within a specific social relationship; a sociological orientation to persuasion which recognizes that it transpires in an interactional setting; and some tentative hypotheses consistent with this orientation. [...]

Not long after my arrival at Port Harrison, I participated in a joyous evening of Eskimo dance. I was struck by the athletic vigour of the dance, for example, the pressure with which the young women grasped my hand in the "grand right-and-left" that forms the chorus of every dance. Since I was enjoying myself immensely, I returned the squeeze to the girls with equal pressure. Late that night I wrote in my notes: "Eskimos dance with great vigour."

The professions have been selected as distinctive and significant subject matter for sociological analysis. The social scientist bas begun to realize that this area of behaviour provides a fertile field for studying one aspect of the work world. There are many problems deserving attention within any specific profession. This thesis will focus on the medical profession, with specific reference to the patterns of behaviour exhibited by the young Jewish practitioners in their endeavour to establish a private practice. Every professional is faced with this initial problem of setting himself up in practice, and in large part, how successful he is in his professional pursuit will depend upon how successfully he has solved this problem.

Although the use of plants for treating supernaturally caused illnesses (e.g., soul loss, evil wind, witchcraft) has been documented in the Ecuador highlands, so-called magical plants have received much less focused attention than plants used for treating naturalistic disorders. Drawing on interviews done in 2002 and 2003 with 116 curanderos residing in the Ecuador highlands, this paper examines the characteristics of plants identified as magical, how they are used, and how the study of magical plants provides insights into the mindscape of residents of the highlands.

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Sociological research on earnings and income has focused on predicting individual income. Analyses most often use occupational status or class, along with other economically relevant variables, to explain earnings or income variations among individuals (income determination). Aggregate inequality (income distribution) has received considerably less attention, except in cross‐national research. This especially holds for applying central concepts of stratification to the analysis of inequality. That is, class and occupation differences in economic rewards are rarely used to investigate aggregate earnings or income inequality. This study, using 1976 and 1977 Panel Study of Income Dynamics survey data, estimates the proportion of total earnings/income inequality accounted for by class and by occupation. Theil's index is used to measure earnings and income inequality and thus decompose total inequality into between‐and within‐group components. Wright's five‐category schema is replicated for decomposition of inequality by class and a traditional four‐category ordinal typology for decomposition by occupation. The two schemas show similar results: both class and occupation respectively account for between one‐fifth and one‐fourth of total earnings and income inequality. The results show the relevance of these central stratification typologies for the analysis of aggregate inequality.