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Overview

William C. Cockerham is affiliated with the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the United States. Their research spans several subfields including General Health Professions, History and Philosophy of Science, Pharmacy, Health, and Economics and Econometrics.

The main topics addressed in their work encompass Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations, Health Disparities and Outcomes, Healthcare Policy and Management, Obesity and Health Practices, Obesity, Physical Activity, and Diet, Employment and Welfare Studies, and Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice.

The scientist has published multiple recent papers, including the following:

  • Theoretical Approaches to Research on the Social Determinants of Obesity (2022, American Journal of Preventive Medicine)
  • Health Lifestyle Theory in a Changing Society: The Rise of Infectious Diseases and Digitalization (2023, Journal of Health and Social Behavior)
  • Political ideology and pandemic lifestyles: the indirect effects of empathy, authoritarianism, and threat (2022, Discover Social Science and Health)
  • Obesity-Related Health Lifestyles of Late-Middle Age Black Americans: The Jackson Heart Study (2022, American Journal of Preventive Medicine)
  • Conflicted Care: Doctors Navigating Patient Welfare, Finances, and Legal Risk (2023, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with William C. Cockerham include Jason Adam Wasserman, Terrence D. Hill, Ginny Garcia-Alexander, Andrew P. Davis, and Eric Bjorklund.

The scientist's work has appeared in notable publication venues such as:

  • The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society
  • American Journal of Preventive Medicine
  • The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology
  • Journal of Health and Social Behavior
  • Discover Social Science and Health

William C. Cockerham has contributed to book publications, including a forthcoming title titled Health and Globalization scheduled for publication in 2025 by The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society.

Best Publications

  • Health Lifestyle Theory and the Convergence of Agency and Structure

    William C. Cockerham

  • The Social Determinants of Chronic Disease.

    William C. Cockerham;Bryant W. Hamby;Gabriela R. Oates

  • The Military : more than just a job?

    William C. Cockerham;Charles C. Moskos;Frank R. Wood

  • Conceptualizing contemporary health lifestyles : Moving beyond Weber

    William C. Cockerham;Alfred Rütten;Thomas Abel

  • Aging and Perceived Health Status

    William C. Cockerham;Kimberly Sharp;Julie A. Wilcox

  • Socioeconomic status and health among the aged in the United States and Germany: a comparative cross-sectional study.

    Olaf von dem Knesebeck;Günther Lüschen;William C Cockerham;Johannes Siegrist

  • Social Causes of Health and Disease

    William C. Cockerham

  • Health lifestyles in Russia.

    William C Cockerham

  • The social determinants of the decline of life expectancy in Russia and eastern Europe: a lifestyle explanation.

    William C. Cockerham

  • MAX WEBER, FORMAL RATIONALITY, AND HEALTH LIFESTYLES

    William C. Cockerham;Thomas Abel;Günther Lüschen

  • Health and Social Change in Russia and Eastern Europe

    William C. Cockerham

  • Psychological distress, gender, and health lifestyles in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine.

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  • Sociology of mental disorder

    William C. Cockerham

  • Social class, Mexican culture, and fatalism: Their effects on psychological distress

    Catherine E. Ross;John Mirowsky;William C. Cockerham

  • The new Blackwell companion to medical sociology

    William C. Cockerham

  • Uncovering the mystery: factors of African American suicide

    Leigh A. Willis;David W. Coombs;Patricia Drentea;William C. Cockerham

  • Health lifestyles in Russia and the socialist heritage.

    William C. Cockerham;M. Christine Snead;Derek F. Dewaal

  • The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior and Society

    William C. Cockerham;Robert Dingwall;Stella R. Quah;Jay A. Irwin

  • Bourdieu and an Update of Health Lifestyle Theory

    William C. Cockerham

  • Health lifestyles and political ideology in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine.

    William C. Cockerham;Brian P. Hinote;Geoffrey B. Cockerham;Pamela Abbott

  • Health lifestyles in central Asia: the case of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

    William C Cockerham;Brian P Hinote;Pamela Abbott;Christian Haerpfer

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Wuthnow
Robert Wuthnow Princeton University
Gavin Andrews
Gavin Andrews University of New South Wales
Glenna Spitze
Glenna Spitze University at Albany, State University of New York
Noah E. Friedkin
Noah E. Friedkin University of California, Santa Barbara
Peter V. Marsden
Peter V. Marsden Harvard University
Walter W. Powell
Walter W. Powell Stanford University
David Mechanic
David Mechanic Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Edward W. Hook
Edward W. Hook University of Alabama at Birmingham
John Mirowsky
John Mirowsky The University of Texas at Austin
Bruce P. Dohrenwend
Bruce P. Dohrenwend Columbia University

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