Geoffrey Mead

TL;DR: In this respect, Bourdieu has mostly been found want... as mentioned in this paper, and social theorists in recent years have concerned themselves with the matter of the kind and intensity of people's everyday reflective capacities.

TL;DR: Despite increasing social pressure to use new digital technologies, older people's adoption of them remains below other age groups as discussed by the authors, and they contribute a sociological dimension to exploring how older people adopt them.

TL;DR: Sociologists maintain an ambivalent relationship to the category of the person, even more so at a time when the category is deemed insufficient for analysis yet appears increasingly significant as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine two recursive approaches to the study of technology adoption within families and the life course: actor network theory (ANT) and strong structuration theory (SST) to explain the reciprocal relationship between social structure and agency in the context of technology use over time.

TL;DR: The potential for sociological knowledge to assist in counteracting deleterious social forces remains a live problem as discussed by the authors, and the present article approaches this from the perspective of the work of Pierre Bourdieu, and offers an explication of what can be called "clinical sociology".