Basic Stuff Research Articles

Child of the 1960s Addresses Issues of the 1980s

ABSTRACT MEDICINE GETS ITS FINGERS in every nook and cranny of human existence, says Gideon Bosker, MD, explaining why the field holds such fascination for the writer and reader alike.Bosker speaks from experience. He spends 30 hours a week intensely involved with the basic stuff of humanity as attending physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center in Portland, Ore. He spends another 30 hours as a writer—reflecting on the myriad aspects of human existence.Within the last decade the latter 30hour increments have involved writing or editing textbooks and journal articles in geriatric medicine and emergency medicine and designing continuing education seminars for specialists in those fields. They now also involve preparing the first issue of Ambulatory Medicine Letter—a newsletter for primary care physicians scheduled to debut in December.But his colleagues in medicine are only one sector of Bosker's audience. Since

Basic Stuff in the Pool

(1987). Basic Stuff in the Pool. Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance: Vol. 58, No. 7, pp. 32-36.

Basic Student-Teaching Stuff

(1985). Basic Student-Teaching Stuff. Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance: Vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 58-60.

Basic Stuff: A Collaborative Project for a “New Game”

<i>Basic Stuff</i>: A Collaborative Project for a “New Game”

Change, Controversy, and Criticism in the Profession: The Case of Basic Stuff

Change, Controversy, and Criticism in the Profession: The Case of Basic Stuff

Basic Stuff—Series I

Basic Stuff—Series I

BOOK AND FILM REVIEWS: What is the Basic Stuff? The Field Concept in Contemporary Science

BOOK AND FILM REVIEWS: What is the Basic Stuff? The Field Concept in Contemporary Science

A Critical Review of Barrington Moore's Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant In the Making of the Modern World. By Barrington Moore, Jr. Boston: Beacon Press, 1966. Many pay lip service to the classical tradition in sociology, but few indeed work in terms of its mandate – which calls upon social scientists to assess, from a comparative and historical perspective, the prospects for freedom, rationality, and democracy in a modernizing world. Of the intrepid few who do consciously carry forward the classical tradition, most elaborate theoretical leads from the enormous scholarly legacy of Max Weber. Barrington Moore, Jr.'s Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy is therefore all the more unusual and interesting because it is not only a work solidly within the classical sociological tradition, but also the product of a Marxist scholarly perspective. And, leaving aside the literature on imperialism, it is virtually the only well-elaborated Marxist work on the politics of modernization to which one can point. Social Origins does not postulate one route to the modern world which must be taken by all countries. Nor does it assign the strategic political roles in modernizing revolutions to the bourgeoisie or the proletariat. Yet in deeper and more significant ways, Social Origins is a Marxist work. In it Professor Moore relies for theoretical sustenance upon the central conceptions of Marxist political sociology – “the conception of social class as arising out of an historically specific set of economic relationships and of the class struggle as the basic stuff of politics .”