کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1075547 1486310 2011 5 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Explaining drug policy: Towards an historical sociology of policy change
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی روانپزشکی و بهداشت روانی
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Explaining drug policy: Towards an historical sociology of policy change
چکیده انگلیسی

The goal of seeking to understand the development over time of drug policies is a specific version of the more general intellectual project of finding ways of explaining social change. The latter has been a preoccupation of some of the greatest thinkers within the social sciences of the last 200 years, from Foucault all the way back to the three nineteenth-century pioneers, Marx, Durkheim and Weber. I describe this body of work as ‘historical sociology’. In this paper, I outline how a particular approach to historical sociology can be fruitfully drawn upon to understand the development of drug policy, using by way of illustration the example of the analysis of a recent transformation in British drug policy: the rise of the criminal justice agenda. I conclude by arguing that by looking at developments in drug policy in this way, some new insights are opened up.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: International Journal of Drug Policy - Volume 22, Issue 6, November 2011, Pages 415–419
نویسندگان
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