International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

Social structure, human agency, and social policy

Gil Richard Musolf

Discusses the papers in this issue in calculated style, with regard to social structure, human agency and social policy. Itemizes the papers one‐by‐one and gives their…

Policy as a collective venture: a symbolic interactionist approach to the study of organizational directives

Robert Prus

Although the particular policies that groups establish may serve to differentiate those groups from others in the broader community, policies are better envisioned as…

Lying: deception in human affairs

Bernard M. Meltzer

Seeking to clarify the concept of lying, I deal with several topics on which ideas vary. I consider the symbolic, intentional, misleading, and relational character of…

Playing the blame game: casting guilt and avoiding stigma during a tuberculosis health crisis

Antonio D. Jimenez

This study examines the consequences of stigmatization that occurred during a tuberculosis outbreak concentrated among Puerto Rican clients enrolled in a Chicago drug…

Loss of site: organizational site moves as organizational deaths

Melinda J. Milligan

This paper broadens and extends the idea of organizational death by arguing that certain organizational site moves, those in which employees hold a strong place attachment…