William C. Cockerham is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Chair Emeritus at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Research Scholar of Sociology at the College of William and Mary. Currently a Deputy Editor of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, he has served on the editorial board of several journals, including the American Sociological Review and Society and Mental Health. He is author of Medical Sociology, 14th ed. (Routledge 2017) and Sociology of Mental Disorder, 10th ed. (Routledge 2017).

• Contents1. Medical Sociology and Sociological Theory2. The Origin of Medical Sociology3. Medical Sociology and the Rise of Theory4. Classical Theory and Its Legacies: Durkheim and Weber5. Classical Theory and Its Legacies: Marx6. Symbolic Interaction and Labeling Theory7. French Structuralism, Poststructuralism, and Postmodernism8. The Stress Process9. The Social Construction of Gender and Race10. Health Lifestyle Theory11. Life Course Theory12. Fundamental Cause Theory13. The Medical Profession and Medicalization14. Theories of Social Capital

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William C. Cockerham is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Chair Emeritus at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Research Scholar of Sociology at the College of William and Mary. Currently a Deputy Editor of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, he has served on the editorial board of several journals, including the American Sociological Review and Society and Mental Health. He is author of Medical Sociology, 14th ed. (Routledge 2017) and Sociology of Mental Disorder, 10th ed. (Routledge 2017).

• Contents1. Medical Sociology and Sociological Theory2. The Origin of Medical Sociology3. Medical Sociology and the Rise of Theory4. Classical Theory and Its Legacies: Durkheim and Weber5. Classical Theory and Its Legacies: Marx6. Symbolic Interaction and Labeling Theory7. French Structuralism, Poststructuralism, and Postmodernism8. The Stress Process9. The Social Construction of Gender and Race10. Health Lifestyle Theory11. Life Course Theory12. Fundamental Cause Theory13. The Medical Profession and Medicalization14. Theories of Social Capital

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William C. Cockerham is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Chair Emeritus at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Research Scholar of Sociology at the College of William and Mary. Currently a Deputy Editor of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, he has served on the editorial board of several journals, including the American Sociological Review and Society and Mental Health. He is author of Medical Sociology, 14th ed. (Routledge 2017) and Sociology of Mental Disorder, 10th ed. (Routledge 2017).

• Contents1. Medical Sociology and Sociological Theory2. The Origin of Medical Sociology3. Medical Sociology and the Rise of Theory4. Classical Theory and Its Legacies: Durkheim and Weber5. Classical Theory and Its Legacies: Marx6. Symbolic Interaction and Labeling Theory7. French Structuralism, Poststructuralism, and Postmodernism8. The Stress Process9. The Social Construction of Gender and Race10. Health Lifestyle Theory11. Life Course Theory12. Fundamental Cause Theory13. The Medical Profession and Medicalization14. Theories of Social Capital

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